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.
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)
Directed by John Olden / Wolfgang Staudte
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Conway, Family, First World War, Germany, United Kingdom, Weimar Republic, West
Alternate Titles
Die glücklichen Jahre
DE
Die glücklichen Jahre der Thorwalds
DE
Les Années heureuses
FR
Les Bonnes Années des Thorwald
FR
Les Thowald
FR
The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
US