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 …
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Lissy Tempelhof as Narrator
Werner Eberlein as Narrator
Renate Blume as Rita Seidel
Eberhard Esche as Manfred Herrfurth
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Rolf Meternagel
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