Happiness

François, a young carpenter, lives happily with his wife and their children. His life is divided between the carpenter’s shop, picnics in the country and peaceful evenings at home. One day, he meets a postal clerk called Emilie.

Le Bonheur
France 1965
  • Czech
78 min.
18+
  • This film is available until 31. 3. 2025 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.
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Young carpenter François loves his wife, his children and nature. Then he meets another woman, a post office worker, who adds to his happiness. Still very much in love with his wife, he doesn't want to deprive himself, hide or lie. One day at a picnic in the Ile-de-France, tragedy strikes: his wife drowns in a pond. The carpenter and the postwoman live together and bring up their children. They go on picnics, but it's autumn.

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Credits
Director: Agnès Varda
Screenplay: Agnès Varda
Cinematography: Jean Rabier, Claude Beausoleil
Music: Jean-Michel Defaye
Sound: Louis Hochet, Antoine Bonfanti
Editing: Janine Verneau
Production Design: Hubert Monloup
Producer: Mag Bodard
Costumes: Claude François
Cast: Jean-Claude Drouot, Marie-France Boyer, Marcelle Faure-Bertin, Manon Lanclos, Sylvia Saurel, Marc Eyraud, Christian Riehl, Paul Vecchiali, Yvonne Dany, Claire Drouot
Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

1965 – Agnès Varda (Silver Berlin Bear – Special Prize of the Jury)

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  • This film is available until 31. 3. 2025 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.