MONEY BUYS HAPPINESS

  • Robert Guédiguian
  • Fiction
  • 1993
  • 1h30

The fate of the people in this housing project in the suburbs of Marseilles seems to be poverty, unemployment, petty crime and drugs. A lone priest fights against the odds but what can he do besides hand out sermons, syringes and condoms? A group of mothers has the answer: “Let’s teach them
to steal properly… from the rich and the privileged, like in the old days…

Screenplay
  • Jean-Louis Milesi
  • Robert Guédiguian
Photography
  • Bernard Cavalie
Sound
  • Laurent Lafran
Set design
  • Michel Vandestien
Editing
  • Bernard Sasia
Production
  • Agat Films
  • Robert Guédiguian
Coproduction
  • FRANCE 2
Distribution Diaphana
Theatrical release 14/04/1993
International seller Mercure international
Video editor Diaphana

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