The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 16, 1962Release Date
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
1h 28m
Running Time
November 16, 1962Release Date
Plot.
The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss 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.
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Cast & Crew.
Elisabeth Bergner
Frau Thorwald
Hansjörg Felmy
ihr Sohn Peter
Johanna Matz
ihre Tochter Maria
Dietmar Schönherr
ihr Sohn Martin
Brigitte Grothum
ihre Tochter Helga
Elfriede Irrall
ihre Tochter Erika
Dieter Borsche
Dr. Schaub
Loni von Friedl
Brigitte von Tienitz
Wega Jahnke
Kathrin Thorwald
Robert Graf
Ernst Bieber
John Olden
Director
Siegfried Franz
Music / Director of Photography
Wolfgang Staudte
Director
Alice Ludwig
Editor
Alexander Rakosi
Producer
Christian Schürhoff
Writer
Details.
Release DateNovember 16, 1962
Original NameDie glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 28m
Genres
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Wiki.
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (German: Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds) is a 1962 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and John Olden, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy and Dietmar Schönherr. It is based on J.B. Priestley's 1937 play Time and the Conways, with the setting shifted from Britain to Germany. It portrays two family gatherings - the first in 1913 during the German Empire before the First World War and the second in 1932 in the dying days of the Weimar Republic before the Nazi takeover.
It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg and on location in the city. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Mathias Matthies and Ellen Schmidt.