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Someone Else's Happiness (2005)

Someone Else's Happiness poster
Original title
Een Ander Zijn Geluk
Directed by
Fien Troch
Genre
drama film
Country
Netherlands, Belgium
Runtime
1h 38m
Rated
5425019001216
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in a small Belgian town causes a fatal car accident. The film follows the ripple effects on the local community, focusing on the people left behind and their quiet grief.

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What happens

Someone Else's Happiness (Dutch: Een ander zijn geluk) is a 2005 Belgian-Dutch film directed and written by Fien Troch. The movie was the Belgian entry for the Academy Awards 2006 in the category Best Foreign Language Film but failed to receive the actual nomination. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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