Divided Heaven

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 …

• Konrad WolfScreenplay
• Konrad WolfDirector
• Christa WolfScreenplay
• Gerhard WolfScreenplay
• Kurt BarthelScreenplay
• Willi BrücknerScreenplay

• 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