Something like happiness

Resource Information

The work Something like happiness represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Something like happiness

Statement of responsibility

directed by Bohdan Slama

Contributor

• Liska, Pavel, 1971-
• Slama, Bohdan
• Vilhelmova, Tatiana

Subject

• Feature films -- 2005
• Foreign films -- 2005

Genre

• Feature films
• Foreign films

Language

cze

Summary

A trio of friends residing in an urban Czech housing project finds that happiness can come from the place where you least expect it in this quirky and heartfelt drama. As the shadow of the country's largest chemical factory looms large over their bleak industrial suburb, Monika, Tonik, and Dasha hold out hope for a brighter future in another place. While supermarket employee Monika's dreams are built around the hope that she will someday venture to America to be with her boyfriend, George, Tonik secretly pines for Monika, and single mother Dasha finds comfort in the arms of a married man while slowly drifting from reality. As Tonik flees his conservative parents to live on the farm of his eccentric aunt, Dasha's grip on reality finally slips -- leaving her two young children in the care of Tonik and Monika. As things begin to look up for the willing but inexperienced new parents, a lifetime of happiness is finally within their reach

Characteristic

videorecording

PerformerNote

Tatiana Vilhelmova, Pavel Liska

Runtime

102

Series statement

Film Movement series

Series volume

year 4, film 11

Technique

other