August Fools
2013
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 …
Konrad Wolf
Rolf Meternagel
Wendland
Rita Seidel
Narrator
Manfred Herrfurth
Narrator
2013
1999
2006
1983
1988
1963
1990
1980
2006
1965
2002
1965
2009
1950
2007
1980
1962
1998
1981
1968