Divided Heaven
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 …
- Year: 1964
- Country: East Germany
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Studio: DEFA
- Keyword: cold war, eastern germany
- Director: Konrad Wolf
- Cast: Renate Blume, Eberhard Esche, Hans Hardt-Hardtloff, Hilmar Thate, Martin Flörchinger, Erika Pelikowsky