The Norwegian series, broadcast and awarded in 2018, is back on our screens.
Multi-award winning since its release in 2018, the Norwegian series State of Happiness returns to Arte. Between madmen and Nordic Noir style, it presents a gallery of portraits of young workers in 1969 in Stavanger, a port city where the international oil companies decided to withdraw after years of prospecting in the North Sea. Among the characters affected by this situation, the spectators discover Christian Nyman, a diver on an offshore platform, and Jonathan Kay, a brilliant lawyer at Phillips Petroleum (American oil company) who came to close the wells on site.
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But it is above all thanks to its female characters that the series stands out. In the lead: Anna Hellevik (Anne Regine Ellingsæter), daughter of farmers propelled to the forefront of transactions between American prospectors and local authorities, and Toril Torstensen (Malene Wadel), a young girl abandoned by her companion, an engineer at Shell. With these strong figures who embody the emancipation of women, State of Happiness has earned a place in the “Heroines in series” collection of arte.tv. Season 2 to come.
State of Happinessby Mette Marit Bølstad, currently on arte.tv.
Source- https://madame.lefigaro.fr/celebrites/culture/en-video-la-serie-state-of-happiness-incarnation-de-l-emancipation-des-femmes-20220514