My Heart Is Mine Alone

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1997 · 100 min · Drama · TMDB 4.6/10

Overview

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.

Directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms

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