After a breakdown, Rita returns to her childhood village. It is 1961. As she recovers, she remembers the past two years: her love for the chemist Manfred, ten years her senior; his enthusiasm about his new chemical process, which turned to bitter disappointment in the face of rejection; his escape to West Berlin a few weeks before the Wall was built; and his hope that she would follow him. This East German classic, praised by critics as one of Germany’s 100 Most Important Films, is based on Christa Wolf’s internationally-known novel, criticized in the GDR for questioning the construction of the Wall. Produced during a brief cultural thaw in the early 1960s, this film was strongly influenced by French Nouvelle Vague cinema. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.5/10 | |
Released: | October 2, 1964 | |
Runtime: | 116 min | |
Genres: | Drama Romance | |
Companies: | Deutsche Film (DEFA) DEFA | |
Cast: | Renate Blume Hilmar Thate Eberhard Esche Hans Hardt-Hardtloff | |
Crew: | Konrad Wolf Kurt Barthel Christa Wolf Willi Brückner Gerhard Wolf | |
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