My Heart Is Mine Alone

Helma Sanders-Brahms
1997-09-01


3.8
100 min

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

Name Character Team
Janina Berge Else as a child Unowned
Dagmar Bertram Member of the Lasker family Unowned
Klaus Bunk Herwarth Walden Unowned
Bruno Dunst Professor Unowned
Oliver Grice Pastor Benn Unowned
Julia Kiessling Elses Schwester Unowned
Julia Kiessling Else's sister Unowned
Cornelius Obonya Gottfried Benn Unowned
Stefan Ostertag Franz Marc Unowned
Sabine Panzer Nell Walden Unowned
Thomas Ruffer Bertold Lasker Unowned
Katja Ruttloff Else's sister Unowned
Anna Sanders Edith Unowned
Christian Schlemmer Vasily Kandinsky Unowned
Inken Schmitz Member of the Lasker family Unowned
Leonard Schnitman Paul, Else's brother Unowned
Rene Schubert Adliger Unowned
Tomek Schulz Gottfried as a child Unowned
Nikolai Sirenko Else's father Unowned
Valentina Sirenko Else's mother Unowned
Lena Stolze Else Lasker-Schüler Unowned
Wolfgang Tebbe Member of the Lasker family Unowned
Lothar von Versen Peter Hille Unowned
Matthias Wessolek Kulturbonze Unowned