The Happiness of the World

An exceptional tenement house in Silesia just next to the Polish-German border and its inhabitants: the beautiful Jewess Róża and three men infatuated with her – a Pole, a Silesian and a German. There are also two supporting characters: a journalist from Warsaw, bon vivant Sobański, Róża’s object of admiration, and Jan, a family friend. We meet the characters in the summer of 1939. The first part of the film ends with a dramatic war night.

We meet them again in the fifties, when the surviving residents try to find themselves in the new reality.

Credits

Reżyseria

Michał Rosa

written by

Michał Rosa

director of photography

Marcin Koszałka PSC

music by

Janusz Wojtarowicz, Paweł Baranek, Marcin Gałażyn (Motion Trio)

production design by

Tomasz Bartczak, Andrzej Kowalczyk

set decorators

Dorota Dąbrowska, Tomasz Bartczak costume design by Barbara Sikorska-Bouffał

make-up by

Alina Janerka

sound by

Piotr Domaradzki, Barbara Domaradzka

edited by

Krzysztof Szpetmański PSM

cast

Karolina Gruszka, Dariusz Chojnacki, Mateusz Lickindorf, Grzegorz Palkowski, Krzysztof Stroiński, Agata Kulesza, Dorota Segda, Barbara Lubos, Tomasz Borkowski, Przemysław Bluszcz, Andrzej Konopka, Marcin Perchuć

produced by

Argomedia

producer

Lambros Ziotas

co-produced by

Telewizja Polska, IF Silesia-Film, Państwowa Instytucja Kultury Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych CeTA, D35

co-producers

Wojciech Hoflik, Mariusz Wróbel, Robert Banasiak, Marcin Kryjom

production manager

Beata Osmelak-Kilian

co-financed by

Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej

Obsada

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