Synopsis
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 …
Ratings
IMDb6.6/10
25 audience votes
Key crew
- Konrad WolfScreenplay
- Konrad WolfDirector
- Gerhard WolfScreenplay
- Christa WolfScreenplay
- Kurt BarthelScreenplay
- Willi BrücknerScreenplay
Cast
- Lissy TempelhofNarrator
- Werner EberleinNarrator
- Renate BlumeRita Seidel
- Eberhard EscheManfred Herrfurth
- Hans Hardt-HardtloffRolf Meternagel
- Hilmar ThateWendland
- Martin FlörchingerHerr Herrfurth
- Erika PelikowskyFrau Herrfurth
- Günter GrabbertErnst Schwarzenbach
- Agnes KrausFrau Meternagel
- Hilmar BaumannCast
- Paul BerndtMelcher
Stills
Themes
cold wareastern germany