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 …

• DirectorKonrad Wolf
• Release2 October 1964
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 56m
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  6.238
  21 reviews
• Productions

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