
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 …

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

Eastern Cross
Eastern Cross

Forget America
Forget America

Billion Dollar Spy
Billion Dollar Spy

The Iron Giant
The Iron Giant

Eine Pyramide für mich
Eine Pyramide für mich

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Zeit der Fische
Zeit der Fische

Gorky Park
Gorky Park

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Bunker
Bunker

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Cold War
Cold War