DIVIDED HEAVEN

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 …

The Crew

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