The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
Directed by John Olden, Wolfgang Staudte
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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Elisabeth BergnerFrau Thorwald
Hansjörg Felmyihr Sohn Peter
Johanna Matzihre Tochter Maria
Dietmar Schönherrihr Sohn Martin
Brigitte Grothumihre Tochter Helga
Elfriede Irrallihre Tochter Erika
Dieter BorscheDr. Schaub
Loni von FriedlBrigitte von Tienitz
Robert GrafErnst BieberExplore the crew
- Director
- John Olden
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Editor
- Alice Ludwig
- Producer
- Alexander Rakosi
- Writer
- Answald Krüger
- Writer
- Maria Matray
- Writer
- J. B. Priestley
- Writer
- Christian Schürhoff
- Director of Photography
- Siegfried Franz