Released:
1964-10-02

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:
Konrad Wolf

Runtime:
1h 56min

Genre:
Drama, Romance

• Cast:
• 
  Lissy Tempelhof
  as
  Narrator
• 
  Werner Eberlein
  as
  Narrator
• 
  Renate Blume
  as
  Rita Seidel
• 
  Eberhard Esche
  as
  Manfred Herrfurth
• 
  Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
  as
  Rolf Meternagel