--- title: 'The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)' type: 'film' director: 'Wolfgang Staudte' released: '1962-01-01' runtime_minutes: 89 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'Germany' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-happy-years-of-the-thorwalds-1962' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056031/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962) 1962 · 89 min · Drama · Germany Original title: Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds ## Synopsis The Happy Years of the Thorwalds is a 1962 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Staudte and John Olden, starring Elisabeth Bergner, Hansjörg Felmy and Dietmar Schönherr. It is based on J.B. Priestley's 1937 play Time and the Conways, with the setting shifted from Britain to Germany. It portrays two family gatherings - the first in 1913 during the German Empire before the First World War and the second in 1932 in the dying days of the Weimar Republic before the Nazi takeover. ## Credits - **Director:** [Wolfgang Staudte](https://cinepixo.com/people/wolfgang-staudte), [John Olden](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-olden) - **Screenplay:** [Maria Matray](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-matray) - **Original Music Composer:** [Siegfried Franz](https://cinepixo.com/people/siegfried-franz) - **Director of Photography:** [Siegfried Hold](https://cinepixo.com/people/siegfried-hold) - **Editor:** [Alice Ludwig](https://cinepixo.com/people/alice-ludwig) ## Cast - [Robert Graf](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-graf) - [Wega Jahnke](https://cinepixo.com/people/wega-jahnke) - [Dieter Borsche](https://cinepixo.com/people/dieter-borsche) - [Elfriede Irrall](https://cinepixo.com/people/elfriede-irrall) - [Loni von Friedl](https://cinepixo.com/people/loni-von-friedl) - [Brigitte Grothum](https://cinepixo.com/people/brigitte-grothum) - [Johanna Matz](https://cinepixo.com/people/johanna-matz) - [Elisabeth Bergner](https://cinepixo.com/people/elisabeth-bergner) - [Hansjörg Felmy](https://cinepixo.com/people/hansjorg-felmy) - [Dietmar Schönherr](https://cinepixo.com/people/dietmar-schonherr) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-happy-years-of-the-thorwalds-1962 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1218409); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.