Overview
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 …
Director and cast
- Konrad Wolf Director
- Lissy Tempelhof as Narrator
- Werner Eberlein as Narrator
- Renate Blume as Rita Seidel
- Eberhard Esche as Manfred Herrfurth
- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Rolf Meternagel
- Hilmar Thate as Wendland
- Martin Flörchinger as Herr Herrfurth
- Erika Pelikowsky as Frau Herrfurth
- Günter Grabbert as Ernst Schwarzenbach
- Hilmar Baumann as Nachrichtenüberbringer
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