The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)

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Country: West Germany
Genres: Drama
Release:
Director: John Olden , Wolfgang Staudte
Writers: Answald Krüger , Maria Matray , J.B. Priestley , Christian Schürhoff
Language: German
Stars: Elisabeth Bergner , Hansjörg Felmy , Dietmar Schönherr , Brigitte Grothum , Elfriede Irrall , Johanna Matz , Wega Jahnke , Loni von Friedl , Robert Graf , Dieter Borsche
Runtime: 88 min
Awards: 1 win
AKA: Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds , Les Années heureuses (France, French Republic) , The Happy Years of the Thorwalds , Die glücklichen Jahre , Les Bonnes Années des Thorwald (France, French Republic) , Les Thowald (France, French Republic) , Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds
Plot: 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.
IMDB:tt0056031