1964-10-02
116 mins
The Plot
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 …
Cast and Crew
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
Horst Weinheimer
Ermisch
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Kuhl
Christoph Engel
Liebentrau
Uwe Detlef Jessen
Mangold
Erik Veldre
Schwabe
Otto Lang
Professor
Lothar Bellag
Dr. Seiffert
Dorothea Volk
Ritas Mutter
Waltraut Kramm
Frau Schwarzenbach
Angela Brunner
Peter Herden
Heinz Hellmich
Doctor