Home

Wunderjahre (1992) [N/A]

Gallery Unavailable

Featuring:
Hans-Joachim Brieske, Oli Böttcher, Kirill Falkow

Written by:
Arend Agthe
Rudolf Herfurtner

Directed by:
Arend Agthe


Release Date:
January 1, 1992

Original Title:
Wunderjahre

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Overview from Open Movies

This film, compiled from a tv-series, is aimed at youngsters to introduce them to the West Germany of the 1950's Economic Miracle. The observations are shown from the point of view of an orphan-girl. Not a bad (though not very good either) film, but I wonder how far the goals are achieved. Were these achieved in the tv-series?The makers and initiators have meant-well and maybe they aimed at youngsters of a too big difference in age. Compared to other films with West Germany in the 50's as subject this one is inexpressive and shallow and thus does not add anything extra. The typical 50's issues are treated as anecdotes; they are never elaborated. The story concerning the lost son gets the most attention probably because this is a very sad (and human) story, but how does this relate to other raised but never really treated subjects?Direction is good routine; some continuity problems within the story did demand patching them up with a voice-over monologue by Silvia Lang, a charming young actress.

Click the heading above to show or hide the text.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Rankings and Honors

Wunderjahre (1992) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 7.2/10

Performers

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

Production

Director:
Arend Agthe

Click the heading above to show or hide the list.

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.