Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Helma Sanders-BrahmsDirector
- Helma Sanders-BrahmsWriter
Cast
- Janina BergeElse as a child
- Dagmar BertramMember of the Lasker family
- Klaus BunkHerwarth Walden
- Bruno DunstProfessor
- Oliver GricePastor Benn
- Julia KiesslingElses Schwester
- Julia KiesslingElse's sister
- Cornelius ObonyaGottfried Benn
- Stefan OstertagFranz Marc
- Sabine PanzerNell Walden
- Thomas RufferBertold Lasker
- Katja RuttloffElse's sister
Themes
woman director