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

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