The Happy Years of the Thorwalds

1h 28min

Drama

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

Elisabeth Bergner

Elisabeth Bergner

Frau Thorwald
Hansjörg Felmy

Hansjörg Felmy

ihr Sohn Peter
Johanna Matz

Johanna Matz

ihre Tochter Maria
Dietmar Schönherr

Dietmar Schönherr

ihr Sohn Martin
Brigitte Grothum

Brigitte Grothum

ihre Tochter Helga
Elfriede Irrall

Elfriede Irrall

ihre Tochter Erika
Dieter Borsche

Dieter Borsche

Dr. Schaub
Loni von Friedl

Loni von Friedl

Brigitte von Tienitz
Robert Graf

Robert Graf

Ernst Bieber

Release date

16th Nov 1962

Status

Released

Spoken languages

Deutsch