
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 …

as Narrator

as Narrator

as Rita Seidel

as Manfred Herrfurth

as Rolf Meternagel

as Wendland

as Herr Herrfurth

as Frau Herrfurth

as Ernst Schwarzenbach

as Frau Meternagel


as Melcher

as Martin Jung

as Sigrid

as Ermisch

as Kuhl

as Liebentrau

as Mangold

as Schwabe

as Professor

as Dr. Seiffert

as Ritas Mutter

as Frau Schwarzenbach



as Doctor

as Kneipenwirt