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 …
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on They Divided the Sky
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Filming locations
Filmed in Babelsberg Studio, Halle (Saale), Ammendorf/Beesen and VEB Waggonbau Ammendorf
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Music
Music by Hans-Dieter Hosalla
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Werner Bergmann
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Konrad WolfScreenplay
- Gerhard WolfScreenplay
- Christa WolfScreenplay, Novel
- Kurt BarthelScreenplay
- Willi BrücknerScreenplay
- Original title
- Der geteilte Himmel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 2, 1964
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- East Germany
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Cast
Lissy TempelhofNarrator- Werner EberleinNarrator
Renate BlumeRita Seidel
Eberhard EscheManfred Herrfurth
Hans Hardt-HardtloffRolf Meternagel
Hilmar ThateWendland
Martin FlörchingerHerr Herrfurth
Erika PelikowskyFrau Herrfurth
Günter GrabbertErnst Schwarzenbach- Agnes KrausFrau Meternagel
Hilmar Baumann
Paul BerndtMelcher
Horst JonischkanMartin Jung
Petra KellingSigrid
Horst WeinheimerErmisch
Hans-Joachim HanischKuhl- Christoph EngelLiebentrau
Uwe Detlef JessenMangold
Erik VeldreSchwabe- Otto LangProfessor
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