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
Your score–
Not scoredImages
Cast
Lissy Tempelhof
Narrator
Werner Eberlein
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
Petra Kelling
Sigrid
Related
Ashes in the Snow
Maria's Lovers
The Secrets We Keep
Petulia
A Journal for Jordan
The Lives of Others
Someday We'll Tell Each Other Everything
Wander Darkly
Chinese Box
Two for the Seesaw
Fire with Fire
The Fugitive Kind
Strange Weather
Shining Through
The Safety of Objects
Game of Love