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.
Lambros Ziotas produced the film through Argomedia in coproduction with Telewizja Polska, IF Silesia-Film, Audiovisual Technology Center (Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych CeTA) and D35. The project received support from the Polish Film Institute.
The Happiness of the World
Director: Michał Rosa
Writer: Michał Rosa
Director of photography: Marcin Koszałka
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka, Maciej Kochajewski
Production designer: Tomasz Bartczak, Andrzej Kowalczyk
Costume designer: Barbara Sikorska-Bouffał
Cast: Karolina Gruszka, Mateusz Lickindorf, Grzegorz Palkowski, Dariusz Chojnacki, Krzysztof Stroiński, Agata Kulesza, Dorota Segda, Andrzej Konopka, Barbara Lubos, Kamil Tkacz, Andrzej Tkacz, Przemysław Bluszcz, Tomasz Borkowski, Marcin Perchuć
Visual effects: Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych
Producer: Lambros Ziotas, Argomedia Sp. z o.o.
Co-producers: Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych, Telewizja Polska, Agencja Produkcji Telewizyjnej i Filmowej, Instytucja Filmowa Silesia-Film, D35
Co-finance: Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
Distribution: Kino Świat
Premiere: 2016
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