Happy End - Österreichisches Filminstitut

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
Production Wega-Filmproduktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Format DCP, 110 Min
Release 06.10.2017
Distribution FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions 23.425
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service 19.05.2019
Viewers 125.000
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

End of Retention Period

DVD/VoD 06.04.2018
Pay TV 06.10.2018
Free TV 06.04.2019

Details:

Script Michael Haneke
Director 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
Funding institutions Austria Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Television investment ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), WDR, BR, Canal+, France 3, ARTE, Cine +, ARTE France Cinema
Film location France, London
Shooting time Summer 2016
Days of shooting 50
Start of shooting 27.06.2016
Completion Spring 2017
Producer Austria Veit Heiduschka, Michael Katz

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