My Heart Is Mine Alone

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.

Cast

Nicolai Albrecht

Played Marc Chagall
Janina Berge

Played Else as a child
Dagmar Bertram

Played Member of the Lasker…
Klaus Bunk

Played Herwarth Walden
Bruno Dunst

Played Professor
Oliver Grice

Played Pastor Benn
Julia Kiessling

Played Elses Schwester
Julia Kiessling

Played Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya

Played Gottfried Benn
Stefan Ostertag

Played Franz Marc
Sabine Panzer

Played Nell Walden
Thomas Ruffer

Played Bertold Lasker
Katja Ruttloff

Played Else's sister
Anna Sanders

Played Edith
Christian Schlemmer

Played Vasily Kandinsky
Inken Schmitz

Played Member of the Lasker…
Leonard Schnitman

Played Paul, Else's brother
Rene Schubert

Played Adliger
Tomek Schulz

Played Gottfried as a child
Nikolai Sirenko

Played Else's father
Valentina Sirenko

Played Else's mother
Lena Stolze

Played Else Lasker-Schüler
Wolfgang Tebbe

Played Member of the Lasker…
Lothar von Versen

Played Peter Hille
Matthias Wessolek

Played Kulturbonze

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