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.
Top Billed Cast

Elisabeth Bergner
Frau Thorwald

Hansjörg Felmy
ihr Sohn Peter

Johanna Matz
ihre Tochter Maria

Dietmar Schönherr
ihr Sohn Martin

Brigitte Grothum
ihre Tochter Helga
Featured Crew
John Olden
Director

Wolfgang Staudte
Director
Siegfried Franz
Music
Alice Ludwig
Editor
Answald Krüger
Writer

Maria Matray
Writer
J. B. Priestley
Writer
Christian Schürhoff
Writer
Werner Ludwig
Executive Producer
Alexander Rakosi
Producer
Siegfried Franz
Director of Photography