

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 …
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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
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