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 …

Genres

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