

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 …
Movie Details
Languages
German
Studio
DEFA
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Key Crew

Konrad Wolf
Screenplay

Konrad Wolf
Director
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

Horst Jonischkan
Martin Jung

Petra Kelling
Sigrid

Horst Weinheimer
Ermisch

Hans-Joachim Hanisch
Kuhl
Christoph Engel
Liebentrau

Uwe Detlef Jessen
Mangold

Erik Veldre
Schwabe
Otto Lang
Professor














