Divided Heaven

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 …

Directed by Konrad Wolf

Top cast

Lissy Tempelhof

Narrator

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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

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Agnes Kraus

Frau Meternagel

Hilmar Baumann

Paul Berndt

Melcher

Horst Jonischkan

Martin Jung

Petra Kelling

Sigrid

Horst Weinheimer

Ermisch

Hans-Joachim Hanisch

Kuhl

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Christoph Engel

Liebentrau

Uwe Detlef Jessen

Mangold

Erik Veldre

Schwabe

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Otto Lang

Professor

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