The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

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.

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

Robert Graf

Ernst Bieber

• John OldenDirector
• Wolfgang StaudteDirector
• Christian SchürhoffWriter
• J. B. PriestleyWriter
• Answald KrügerWriter
• Maria MatrayWriter
• Alexander RakosiProducer
• Werner LudwigExecutive Producer
• Siegfried FranzDirector of Photography
• Alice LudwigEditor

Release date

November 16, 1962

Status

Released

Original language

German

Runtime

1h 28m

Genres

Drama