Divided Heaven

The story

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 …

Cast & crew

Lissy TempelhofNarrator

Werner Eberlein

Werner EberleinNarrator

Renate BlumeRita Seidel

Eberhard EscheManfred Herrfurth

Hans Hardt-HardtloffRolf Meternagel

Hilmar ThateWendland

Martin FlörchingerHerr Herrfurth

Erika PelikowskyFrau Herrfurth

Günter GrabbertErnst Schwarzenbach

Agnes Kraus

Agnes KrausFrau Meternagel

Hilmar BaumannCast

Paul BerndtMelcher