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
Petra Kelling
Sigrid
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Rolf Meternagel
Agnes Kraus
Frau Meternagel
Renate Blume
Rita Seidel
Paul Berndt
Melcher
Hilmar Thate
Wendland
Lissy Tempelhof
Narrator
Angela Brunner
Eberhard Esche
Manfred Herrfurth
Erik Veldre
Schwabe
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Kuhl
Horst Jonischkan
Martin Jung
Günter Grabbert
Ernst Schwarzenbach
Martin Flörchinger
Herr Herrfurth
Waltraut Kramm
Frau Schwarzenbach
Peter Herden
Uwe Detlef Jessen
Mangold
Horst Weinheimer
Ermisch
Erika Pelikowsky
Frau Herrfurth
Hilmar Baumann
Werner Eberlein
Narrator
Christoph Engel
Liebentrau
Otto Lang
Professor
Dorothea Volk
Ritas Mutter
Heinz Hellmich
Doctor
Fredy Barten
Kneipenwirt

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