Happy End

“All around us, the world, and we, in its midst, blind.” A snapshot from the life of a bourgeois European family.

Genre: Drama
Category: Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 110 Min
Release: 06.10.2017
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 23.425
Funding Film Institute: 650.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 47 %
Share of total production costs: 5 %
Television investment: 440.000 €
Co-production: Les Films du Losange (FR, 70%), X-Filme Creative Pool (DE, 15%)
International funding: Filmförderungsanstalt, CNC, EURIMAGES
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 19.05.2019
Viewers: 125.000
Film location: France, London
Shooting time: Summer 2016
Days of shooting: 50
Completion: Spring 2017
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien

Credits

Production: Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz
Director: Michael Haneke
Script: Michael Haneke
DOP: Christian Berger
Editor: Monika Willi
Sound engineer: Guillaume Sciama
Costume design: Catherine Leterrier
Set design: Olivier Radot
Cast: Isabelle Huppert (Anne L.), Jean-Louis Trintignant (Georges), Fantine Harduin (Eve), Mathieu Kassovitz (Thomas)
Production manager: Ulrike Lässer, Sylvie Barthet, Ulli Neumann
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR, BR, Canal+, France 3, ARTE, Cine +, ARTE France Cinema

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