Drama Romance
After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village in 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; how his enthusiasm about his new chemical process turned to bitter disappointment in the face of official rejection; how he escaped to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built and hoped that she would follow him …
Directed by
Konrad Wolf
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Rolf Meternagel
Hilmar Thate
Wendland
Eberhard Esche
Manfred Herrfurth
Renate Blume
Rita Seidel
Petra Kelling
Sigrid
Erika Pelikowsky
Frau Herrfurth
Erik Veldre
Schwabe
Paul Berndt
Melcher
Hilmar Baumann
Agnes Kraus
Frau Meternagel
Horst Weinheimer
Ermisch
Angela Brunner
Martin Flörchinger
Herr Herrfurth
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Kuhl
Lissy Tempelhof
Narrator
Horst Jonischkan
Martin Jung
Günter Grabbert
Ernst Schwarzenbach
Peter Herden
Waltraut Kramm
Frau Schwarzenbach
Uwe Detlef Jessen
Mangold
Werner Eberlein
Narrator
Christoph Engel
Liebentrau
Otto Lang
Professor
Dorothea Volk
Ritas Mutter
Heinz Hellmich
Doctor
Fredy Barten
Kneipenwirt

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