My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.
My Heart Is Mine AloneDrama
Cast
- Janina Berge — Else as a child
- Dagmar Bertram — Member of the Lasker family
- Klaus Bunk — Herwarth Walden
- Bruno Dunst — Professor
- Oliver Grice — Pastor Benn
- Julia Kiessling — Elses Schwester
- Julia Kiessling — Else's sister
- Cornelius Obonya — Gottfried Benn
- Stefan Ostertag — Franz Marc
- Sabine Panzer — Nell Walden
- Thomas Ruffer — Bertold Lasker
- Katja Ruttloff — Else's sister
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