My Heart Is Mine Alone

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

Top 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

A

Anna Sanders

Edith

C

Christian Schlemmer

Vasily Kandinsky

I

Inken Schmitz

Member of the Lasker family

L

Leonard Schnitman

Paul, Else's brother

R

Rene Schubert

Adliger

T

Tomek Schulz

Gottfried as a child

N

Nikolai Sirenko

Else's father

V

Valentina Sirenko

Else's mother

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