Inventing Happy Days
Synopsis
Two foreign women, one Russian, the other Chinese, live in France and get by doing casual work. Olga and Mai, each so different from the other, both share the same reality of being an immigrant. It's nothing to dream about. And yet!!!
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- Executive Producer : Sotavento
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producers : Antoine Roch, Jérôme Zajdermann, Paulina Marino
- Screenwriters : Natalia Reyes, Sandrine Dumas
- Director of Photography : Marc Tévanian
- Composers : Delphine Ciampi-Ellis, Anne Millioud-Gouverneur, Diane Sorel
- Editor : Barbara Bascou
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Paul Mugel
- Costume designer : Judy Shrewsbury
- Production Manager : Julien Decoin
- Sound editor : Anne Gibourg
- Continuity supervisor : Marie Prual
- Production Designers : Cécile Vatelot, Leonardo Haertling
- Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Croset
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Adolescence, Family, Identity, Immigration, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French, Russian, Chinese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 25 min 40 seconds
- Visa number : 122.976
- Visa issue date : 05/01/2011
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Dolby e
- Rating restrictions : None
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