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The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

1962 · 1 hr 28 mins

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

Cast: Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy, Johanna Matz, Dietmar Schönherr, Brigitte Grothum