DOUBLE HAPPINESS

Dir. Ella Raidel
Austria, China, 2014, 75’

 

Double Happiness is a filmic journey to China, where a clone of the idyllic Austrian town of Hallstatt has been realized as a real estate project. In Chinese, “double happiness” stands for marrying and the associated happiness for both sides. The duplicated happiness unfolds in parallel worlds of original and copy, real life and fiction, dream and reality.