Le Bonheur (1934 film)

Le Bonheur Happiness is a 1934 French film directed by Marcel LHerbier. It was adapted from Henri Bernsteins play Le Bonheur, which Bernstein had staged in Paris in March 1933 with Charles Boyer and Michel Simon in leading roles Boyer and Simon took the same parts in the film.

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has servedmonths in prison, they meet and fall in love. Philippe however does not really believe in Claras sincerity, and when he sees incidents from their lives becoming part of her latest film, he leaves her. He vows that their love will continue when he sits in the dark and watches her on the cinema screen.Towards the end of filming, LHerbier suffered an accident when a camera fell on him from an insecure track. He suffered a broken wrist and permanent damage to one eye. He undertook a prolonged legal action against the Path company in which the director argued for his status as an author of the film rather than just a technician employed by the company. He eventually won the case, and it marked the first time that a film director in France was legally recognised as having rights of authorship in his work. ........

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