38th edition
17-25 january 2026

Happy man (Szczesliwy Czlowiek)

Malgorzata Szumowska

Image Happy man (Szczesliwy Czlowiek)
Poland
2000 Fiction 1h23
A mother and her 30 year-old son live in a poor district of a big city. She has problems finding a job; he cannot find his place in today's society. His mother's sudden illness turns his life upside down and crates a new situation requiring maturity that he does not have. A second woman enters his life. His relationship with the two women will become more and more complex...
With : Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Malgorzata Chajewska-Krzysztofik, Piotr Jankowski...
Screenplay : Malgorzata Szumowska
Image : Marek Gajczak, Michal Englert
Sound : Barbara Domaradzka
Music : Zygmunt Konieczny
Editing : Jacek Drosio
Decors : Marek Zawierucha
Production : Studio Filmowe Index

Droits mondiaux : Telewizja Polska S.A Film Agency
Barbara Fundalinska
J.P Woronicza 17 - 00 999 Warszawa - Pologne
Tel : 48 22 547 8167
Fax : 48 22 547 4225
Malgorzata Szumowska was born in Cracow, in Poland. For two years, she studied history at the Jagiellonian University, and then entered in the Directing Department of the Lodz Film School. Silence, a film made during her studies is considered to be one of the best films ever made at the Lodz Film School and won an award in Angers in 1999. Wniebowstapienie, her graduation film is selected this year in the European film school selection of the festival of Angers.