The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Germany - West Germany (FRG)
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Frau Thorwald takes over the raising of her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them together in spite of the fact that their economic situation deteriorates after World War I. Never one to look too critically upon her brood, the woman undergoes a moving and gradual transformation as the adult activities of her children bring home the fact that none of them are what she had once imagined.
Direction John Olden · Wolfgang Staudte
Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Hansjörg Felmy · Dietmar Schönherr · Brigitte Grothum · Elfriede Irrall · Johanna Matz · Wega Jahnke · Loni von Friedl · Robert Graf · Dieter Borsche
Soundtrack Siegfried Franz
Screenplay Answald Krüger · Maria Matray · Christian Schürhoff · J.B. Priestley
Cinematography Siegfried Hold
Original title Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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