Divided Heaven

Divided Heaven (1964)

Der geteilte Himmel

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 …

Date of release
1964-10-02
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (26)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
Konrad Wolf

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: They Divided the Sky
  • Filmed in: Babelsberg Studio, Halle (Saale), Ammendorf/Beesen, and VEB Waggonbau Ammendorf

Divided Heaven is an East German drama film directed by Konrad Wolf. It was released in 1964.

Production

The film's script was adapted from Christa Wolf's novel Der geteilte Himmel (Divided Heaven), released in 1963. Director Konrad Wolf (no relation to Christa Wolf's husband Gerhard Wolf) had read the author's manuscript before the book was published and decided to film it. The main filming took place in Halle from late 1963 to early 1964.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended