Divided Heaven (1964)
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 …
Watch nowDrama, Romance
Cast
- Lissy Tempelhof — Narrator
- Werner Eberlein — Narrator
- Renate Blume — Rita Seidel
- Eberhard Esche — Manfred Herrfurth
- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff — Rolf Meternagel
- Hilmar Thate — Wendland
- Martin Flörchinger — Herr Herrfurth
- Erika Pelikowsky — Frau Herrfurth
- Günter Grabbert — Ernst Schwarzenbach
- Agnes Kraus — Frau Meternagel
- Hilmar Baumann
- Paul Berndt — Melcher
Where to watch Divided Heaven
MUBI, MUBI Amazon Channel, Kanopy
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