Happy End

Year: 2017
Country: France, Germany, Austria
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: drama
Runtime: 107 min.
Age: 16+

Gradually succumbing to dementia, George Laurent, the octogenarian patriarch of the Laurents, an affluent upper-bourgeois family, is uncomfortably sharing his palatial manor in Calais, the heart of the infamous migrant jungle, with his twice-married son, Thomas, and Anne, his workaholic daughter who has taken over the family construction business. Divorced and frigid, Anne has to handle the impact of a disastrous workplace accident caused by her disappointing son Pierre's negligence, while at the same time, the urgent hospitalisation of Thomas' ex-wife from a mysterious poisoning, leads his sulky 13-year-old daughter, Ève, to live with her father and his new wife, Anais. Undoubtedly, in this family, everyone has a skeleton in the closet, and as the fates of the Laurents enmesh with insistent and ignoble desires, a peculiar and disturbing alliance will form. But in the end, some secrets are bigger than others.

Awards & Festivals:

Cannes Film Festival - participation
European Film Awards Nomination - Best European Actress, Best European Actor
Munich International Film Festival - participation
Sydney International Film Festival - participation


  • Saint Petersburg

    • 9 December, Tuesday

      12:50 Lenfilm

      Language: French, English, russian subtitles

  • Yekaterinburg

    • 14 December, Sunday

      14:00 Yeltsin Center

      Language: French, English, russian subtitles