The best years of our life

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Movie
German title The best years of our life
Original title The Best Years of Our Lives
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1946
length 172 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director William Wyler
script Robert E. Sherwood
production Samuel Goldwyn
music Hugo Friedhofer
camera Gregg Toland
cut Daniel Mandell
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The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler . It is based on the novel Glory for Me by MacKinlay Kantor . The one with Myrna Loy , Fredric March , Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright and Virginia Mayo occupied starring film was highly praised by the critics and with seven 1947 Oscars awards, including in the category "Best Film" .

action

After the end of World War II, three US soldiers get to know each other on their way home to their fictional city, Boone City . Al Stephenson served as sergeant in the United States Army , Fred Derry was a celebrated bomber pilot with many awards in the United States Army Air Forces, and Homer Parrish was a common soldier in the United States Navy . Homer lost both of his hands in an attack, which is why he now has to wear prosthetic arms. All three struggle to return to civilian life after their return and discover that the war has changed their lives.

Fred Derry finds himself in a broken marriage, Al Stephenson meets his children as strangers after the three years they grew up without him, and Homer Parrish returns to civilian life after losing both hands.

The war veterans are faced with the difficult task of coming to terms with their past and at the same time having to build a new life for themselves.

Awards

synchronization

The German dubbed version was created for the cinema premiere in 1948.

role actor German Dubbing voice
Milly Stephenson Myrna Loy Edyth Edwards
Al Stephenson Fredric March OE Hasse
Fred Derry Dana Andrews Curt Ackermann
Peggy Stephenson Teresa Wright Gudrun Genest
Marie Derry Virginia Mayo Ethel Reschke
Homer Parrish Harold Russell Franz Nicklisch
Wilma Cameron Cathy O'Donnell Antje Weisgerber
Uncle Butch Engle Hoagy Carmichael Hellmuth Helsig
Hortense Derry Gladys George Margarete Schön
Pat Derry Roman beans Walter Werner
Mr. Parrish, Harold's father Walter Baldwin Wolf Trutz
Novak, bank customer Dean White Walther Suessenguth
Mr. Thorpe, department store manager Howland Chamberlain Karl Meixner
Clarence "Kleister" Merkle, head of department Norman Philips Jr. Clemens Hasse
Woody Milton Victor Cutler Harry Wüstenhagen
Foreman in junkyard Pat Flaherty Erich Dunskus
Mr. Gibbons Ralph Sandford Eduard Wandrey
Bartender Steve Donald Kerr Hans Wiegner
priest Harry Cheshire Arthur Schröder

Reviews

The lexicon of international film judges: Moving, ethically and artistically demanding drama with a life-affirming tendency. In Reclam's film guide it is said: This film is always most convincing where it does not rely on meditation but on unpretentious description - for example Derry at his workplace, wedged between the tables and billboards of a huge department store. And the part of the seriously injured sailor, in which a layman plays his own fate, as it were, is also convincing.

In a 1947 pamphlet for the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals titled Screen Guide for Americans , Ayn Rand accused the film of preaching communist and collectivist messages because it was negative for business people would be represented. It also implies that war veterans are entitled to government compensation.

DVD release

  • The best years of our life . MGM Home Entertainment, 2004

Soundtrack

literature

  • MacKinlay Cantor : Glory For Me. (A Novel in Verse) . Coward-McCann Inc., New York 1945, 268 pages (so far no German-language transmission)
  • Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004. The best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004. The best animated films from 2001 to 2004 . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6 , ext. u. added new edition 2007

Web links

Commons : The Best Years of Our Lives  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The best years of our life ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the synchronous database @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synchrondatenbank.de
  2. The best years of our lives at two thousand and one
  3. ^ Reclams Filmführer, 2.A. 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
  4. Journals of Ayn Rand , Chapter 10.
  5. Barbara Branden : The Passion of Ayn Rand 1986, p. 199.
  6. Charotte B. Becker: Encyclopedia of Ethics . Taylor & Francis, 2001, ISBN 0-415-93675-6 , p. 1441.