La Comédie du bonheur

A rare and inspired film, is a surrealistic work in which Michel Simon tries to bring happiness to others, featuring Micheline Presle, Ramon Novarro, Louis Jourdan, and Jacqueline Delubac. "La Comédie du Bonheur" (comedy of happiness) was made at a time when France was not very happy (1940), so the title might have seemed a bit ironical. A mad man,who escaped from an insane asylum, wants to cheer up his compatriots (here the lodgers of a boarding house). (Verleiher-Text)