Divided Heaven

Oct 2, 1964

1h 56m

★ 6.4

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

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme

Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Heinrich Greif"

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Cast

Narrator

Lissy Tempelhof

Narrator

Werner Eberlein

Rita Seidel

Renate Blume

Manfred Herrfurth

Eberhard Esche

Rolf Meternagel

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Wendland

Hilmar Thate

Herr Herrfurth

Martin Flörchinger

Frau Herrfurth

Erika Pelikowsky

Ernst Schwarzenbach

Günter Grabbert

Frau Meternagel

Agnes Kraus

Hilmar Baumann

Melcher

Paul Berndt

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