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Divided Heaven

1964 · 1h 56m · Drama, Romance

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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Cast

• Lissy Tempelhof as Narrator
• Werner Eberlein as Narrator
• 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
• Günter Grabbert as Ernst Schwarzenbach
• Agnes Kraus as Frau Meternagel
• Hilmar Baumann
• Paul Berndt as Melcher

Details

Director

Konrad Wolf

Released

October 2, 1964

Runtime

1h 56m

Genres

Drama, Romance

Studio

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme and Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Heinrich Greif"

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.4 / 10 from 25 votes