My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

09/01/1997 (DE) • 1h 40m

Drama

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.

Top Billed Cast

Nicolai Albrecht

Marc Chagall

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


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Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

woman director

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