The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
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.
Directors: John Olden, Wolfgang Staudte.
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Elisabeth Bergner as Frau Thorwald |
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Hansjörg Felmy as ihr Sohn Peter |
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Johanna Matz as ihre Tochter Maria |
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Dietmar Schönherr as ihr Sohn Martin |
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Brigitte Grothum as ihre Tochter Helga |
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Elfriede Irrall as ihre Tochter Erika |
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Dieter Borsche as Dr. Schaub |
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Loni von Friedl as Brigitte von Tienitz |
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Robert Graf as Ernst Bieber |
| Directing | John Olden | Director |
| Sound | Siegfried Franz | Music |
| Directing | Wolfgang Staudte | Director |
| Editing | Alice Ludwig | Editor |
| Production | Alexander Rakosi | Producer |
| Writing | Christian Schürhoff | Writer |
| Writing | J. B. Priestley | Writer |
| Production | Werner Ludwig | Executive Producer |
| Writing | Answald Krüger | Writer |
| Writing | Maria Matray | Writer |
| Camera | Siegfried Franz | Director of Photography |
