Divided Heaven
Der geteilte Himmel
Release: 1964-10-02
·Runtime: 116m
·★ 6.4
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 …
Production Countries
East Germany
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Heinrich Greif"
Cast
Hilmar Thate
as Wendland
Paul Berndt
as Melcher
Horst Jonischkan
as Martin Jung
Horst Weinheimer
as Ermisch
Uwe Detlef Jessen
as Mangold
Angela Brunner
Peter Herden
Lissy Tempelhof
as Narrator
Renate Blume
as Rita Seidel
Martin Flörchinger
as Herr Herrfurth
Erik Veldre
as Schwabe
Eberhard Esche
as Manfred Herrfurth
Agnes Kraus
as Frau Meternagel
Hans-Joachim Hanisch
as Kuhl
Waltraut Kramm
as Frau Schwarzenbach
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Rolf Meternagel
Erika Pelikowsky
as Frau Herrfurth
Günter Grabbert
as Ernst Schwarzenbach
Hilmar Baumann
Petra Kelling
as Sigrid
