20 Oct 1983
The Right Stuff
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
Divided Heaven
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 …
Top Billed Cast
Lissy Tempelhof Narrator
Werner Eberlein Narrator
Renate Blume Rita Seidel
Eberhard Esche Manfred Herrfurth
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff Rolf Meternagel
Hilmar Thate Wendland
Martin Flörchinger Herr Herrfurth
Erika Pelikowsky Frau Herrfurth
Günther Grabbert Ernst Schwarzenbach
Agnes Kraus Frau Meternagel
Hilmar Baumann 
Paul Berndt Melcher
Horst Jonischkan Martin Jung
Petra Kelling Sigrid
Horst Weinheimer Ermisch
Hans-Joachim Hanisch Kuhl
Christoph Engel Liebentrau
Uwe Detlef Jessen Mangold
Erik Veldre Schwabe
Otto Lang Professor
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