My Heart Is Mine Alone
1997 · 100 min
Drama
★ 4.6Helma 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.
Crew
- Director Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Writer Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Director of Photography Roland Dressel
Cast
- J
Janina Berge
Else as a child
- D
Dagmar Bertram
Member of the Lasker family
- K
Klaus Bunk
Herwarth Walden
- B
Bruno Dunst
Professor
- O
Oliver Grice
Pastor Benn
- J
Julia Kiessling
Elses Schwester
- J
Julia Kiessling
Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya
Gottfried Benn
- S
Stefan Ostertag
Franz Marc
- S
Sabine Panzer
Nell Walden
- T
Thomas Ruffer
Bertold Lasker
- K
Katja Ruttloff
Else's sister
Crew
- Director — Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Writer — Helma Sanders-Brahms
- Director of Photography — Roland Dressel
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