

Happy Anniversary
Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
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- Language
- French
- chase
- anniversary
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France
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AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival9 Jun 1963
BrazilBR
- Theatrical20 Jun 1963
FranceFR
- TheatricalRe-release, restored version7 Jul 2010
GermanyDE
- PremiereOberhausen International Short Film Festival30 Sept 1962
- PremiereMannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival1 Oct 1962
- TVWest Germany13 Jan 1968
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival22 Sept 1963
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHong Kong French Film Festival1 Dec 2010
ItalyIT
- PremiereBordighera Film Festival13 Mar 1963
TaiwanTW
- PremiereTaipei Film Festival28 Jun 2013
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Happy Anniversary was released on 20 June 1963.
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CinemaSerf
11/30/2025
With his wife (Laurence Lignières) having prepared an anniversary luncheon at home, husband (Pierre Étaix) is out in Paris hoping to get her some nice gifts before returning for dejeuner. What he hasn’t quite factored in, though, is that the old cobbled streets of the city centre are jam packed with other motorists vying for that last parking space or just generally sitting in endless queues of traffic edging forward…
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