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Something Like Happiness

2005 film by Bohdan Sláma

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionJan 1, 2026

Entity authorityQ169296 ↗

Source-derived summary

Something Like Happiness (Czech title: Štěstí ) is a 2005 Czech film directed by Bohdan Sláma. It is about finding hope in the midst of disappointment by three young people who grew up in the same run-down block of flats and are now coming of age. The film won the Golden Seashell at the 2005 San Sebastian Film Festival.

Editorial summary

“Something Like Happiness” enters the record as 2005 film by Bohdan Sláma. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Something, Like and Happiness can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—2005-09-15, 2006-04-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Something, Like and Happiness.

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Why this record matters

“Something Like Happiness” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Something, Like and Happiness provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q169296. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Something Like Happiness” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.