Norsk filminstitutt

It’s a charade, a play, a farce. The workplace is broken, and the prospect of returning to the office after the pandemic fills people with dread. Do we really want to go back to business as usual? 

The Happy Worker takes us behind the shiny corporate facades to reveal the systemic problems that plague the workplace: from a culture of silence, fake change and incompetent managers, to how we educate our children. The film is laced with humour and irony, but without losing sight of the very real consequences the toxic workplace has for the health and happiness of the people who work there.

Guiding us on this journey are, among others, the late great anthropologist and activist David Graeber (Debt: The First 500 years, Bullshit Jobs) and the Berkeley-based pioneer of burnout research, psychologist Christina Maslach. 

Production and distribution

Production Year:
2022
Production country:
Finland
Co production country:
Norway
Release date (international):
2022-03-24
Production company:
Yellow Film & TV
Co production company:
Aldeles AS
Producer:
Marko Talli
Co producer:
Elisabeth Kleppe

Crew

Director:
John Webster
Screenplay:
Eveliina Kantola
John Webster
Cinematographer:
Jarkko T. Laine
Sun Kim
Editor:
Kimmo Taavila
Composer:
Olav Øyehaug
Sound Design:
Yngve Sætre

Technical information

Colour:
Colour
Length in min's:
80'
Subtitles:
English

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