The best years of our life
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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 |
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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
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Oscars 1947 :
- Best film for Samuel Goldwyn
- Best director for William Wyler
- Best Actor for Fredric March
- Best Supporting Actor for Harold Russell
- Best score for Hugo Friedhofer
- Best adapted script
- Best cut
- Honorary Oscar for Harold Russell
- nominated in the Best Sound category
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Library of Congress
- Entry into the National Film Registry in 1989
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created for the cinema premiere in 1948.
role | actor | German Dubbing voice |
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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
- Hugo Friedhofer : The Best Years of Our Lives. Original motion picture score . Fifth Continent Music Corp., Walnut Creek 1988, sound carrier no. PRCD 1779 - New recording of the film music by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Franco Collura
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
- The Best Years of Our Lives in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Content description ( memento from May 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
- The Best Years of Our Lives movie poster at e.snmc.io
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ The best years of our lives at two thousand and one
- ^ Reclams Filmführer, 2.A. 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
- ↑ Journals of Ayn Rand , Chapter 10.
- ↑ Barbara Branden : The Passion of Ayn Rand 1986, p. 199.
- ↑ Charotte B. Becker: Encyclopedia of Ethics . Taylor & Francis, 2001, ISBN 0-415-93675-6 , p. 1441.