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
cold war
eastern germany
IMDB
N/A
Letterboxd
3.5 / 5
Cast
Lissy Tempelhof
Narrator
Renate Blume
Rita Seidel
Eberhard Esche
Manfred Herrfurth
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Rolf Meternagel
Hilmar Thate
Wendland
Martin Flörchinger
Herr Herrfurth
Erika Pelikowsky
Frau Herrfurth
Günter Grabbert
Ernst Schwarzenbach
Agnes Kraus
Frau Meternagel
Hilmar Baumann
Paul Berndt
Melcher
Horst Jonischkan
Martin Jung
Crew
Konrad Wolf
Director
Konrad Wolf
Screenplay
Popular Reviews
5 reviews
Ingmar Wetzel
8.0★ · 12/09/25
Sehr interessanter Film, in der DDR mehrmals verboten.
Sehr interessanter Film, in der DDR mehrmals verboten.
Liberty
6.9★ · 03/11/24
Fragments of a divide which permeates physical barriers embedded into a generation. Unabashed in its depiction, in retrospective not as propagandist as it had the potential to be.
Fragments of a divide which permeates physical barriers embedded into a generation. Unabashed in its depiction, in retrospective not as propagandist as it had the potential to be.
