The Wonderful Years (1980)
- Original title
- Die wunderbaren Jahre
- Directed by
- Reiner Kunze
- Genre
- drama film, coming-of-age film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A West German drama about a family living in East Germany. The story follows the everyday lives and struggles of people under a repressive government system.
melancholicreflectiveseriousslow-burnintimatepoliticalpoignant
What happens
The Wonderful Years (German: Die wunderbaren Jahre) is a 1980 West German drama film directed by Reiner Kunze and starring Gabi Marr, Martin May, Dietrich Mattausch and Christine Wodetzky. It was based on Kunze's own book Die wunderbaren Jahre which was deeply critical of the system of government in East Germany. It won a Bavarian Film Award in the Best Screenplay category. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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