''The Wonderful Years'' (german: Die wunderbaren Jahre) is a 1980

West German West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Reiner Kunze Reiner Kunze (born 16 August 1933 in Oelsnitz, Erzgebirge, Saxony) is a German writer and GDR dissident. He studied media and journalism at the University of Leipzig. In 1968, he left the GDR state party SED following the communist Warsaw Pact ...

and starring Gabi Marr, Martin May,

Dietrich Mattausch Dietrich Mattausch is a German stage, film and television actor. Life and career Dietrich Mattausch was born on April 26, 1940, in Leitmeritz, Sudetenland (now Litoměřice, Czech Republic). He is a stage, film and television actor best known ...

and Christine Wodetzky.BFI.org
/ref> It was based on Kunze's own book '' Die wunderbaren Jahre'' which was deeply critical of the system of government in

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

. It won a

Bavarian Film Award The Bavarian Film Awards (german: Bayerischer Filmpreis) have been awarded annually since 1979 by the states of Germany, state government of Bavaria in Germany for “exceptional achievement in German filmmaking.” Along with the Deutscher Filmp ...

in the

Best Screenplay Best or The Best may refer to: People * Best (surname), people with the surname Best * Best (footballer, born 1968), retired Portuguese footballer Companies and organizations * Best & Co., an 1879–1971 clothing chain * Best Lock Corporatio ...

category.

Cast

* Gabi Marr ... Cornelia * Martin May ... Stephan *

... Herr Bergmann * Christine Wodetzky ... Frau Bergmann *

Rolf Boysen Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. A ...

... Pfarrer * Bärbel Deutschmann ... Eva * Thomas Frontzek ... Michael * Erich Schleyer ... Klaus * Joane Prawitz ... Angelika * Hans Helmut Dickow ... Direktor * Eberhard Mondry ... Beckert *

Katharina Matz Katharina Matz (11 June 1935 – 3 March 2021) was a Czech-born German film and television actress. Selected filmography * '' The Man Who Sold Himself'' (1959) * '' As You Like It'' (1970) * '' The Wonderful Years'' (1979) * ' (1988) Televisi ...

... Lehrerin * Carola Schwarz ... Ute Weber * Harald Dietl ... Major *

Klaus Münster Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas. Notable persons whose family name is Klaus * Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American baseba ...

... Brigadier

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* 1980 films 1980s coming-of-age drama films German coming-of-age drama films West German films 1980s German-language films Films based on German novels Films set in East Germany Works about the Stasi Films critical of communism 1970s German films 1980s German films {{1970s-Germany-film-stub