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 …
Renate Blume
as Rita Seidel
Eberhard Esche
as Manfred Herrfurth
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Rolf Meternagel
Hilmar Thate
as Wendland
Martin Flörchinger
as Herr Herrfurth
Erika Pelikowsky
as Frau Herrfurth
Günther Grabbert
as Ernst Schwarzenbach
Agnes Kraus
as Frau Meternagel
Hilmar Baumann
as
Paul Berndt
as Melcher
Horst Jonischkan
as Martin Jung
Petra Kelling
as Sigrid
