Divided Heaven
6.5
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 …
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Cast
28 people
Lissy Tempelhof
Narrator
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Günther Grabbert
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Werner Eberlein
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Renate Blume
Rita Seidel
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Eberhard Esche
Manfred Herrfurth
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Rolf Meternagel
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Veronika Voss
Martin Flörchinger
Herr Herrfurth
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Erika Pelikowsky
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Karl Marx. Early Years
Daniel Druskat
Günter Grabbert
Ernst Schwarzenbach
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Agnes Kraus
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Konrad Wolf Director · Willi Brückner Screenplay Kurt Barthel Screenplay
First release October 2, 1964 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Heinrich Greif", DEFA
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Production
Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe "Heinrich Greif"
Production
DEFA
Production
XG · Germany
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Languages
Original title
Der geteilte Himmel
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · October 2, 1964
Theatrical · East Germany
No release date listed for United States.
France
October 20, 2025 · TV · ARTE (arte KINO classics), DEFA Foundation 2K restoration
Germany
September 13, 1965 · Theatrical · West Germany
November 7, 2021 · Premiere · Film Festival Cottbus, DEFA Foundation 2K restoration
October 20, 2025 · TV · ARTE (arte KINO classics), DEFA Foundation 2K restoration
Japan
October 31, 1979 · Premiere · DDR Kenkoku 30 nen Doitsu minshu kyôwakoku Eiga sai (placeholder)
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