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.

• Helma Sanders-BrahmsDirector
• Helma Sanders-BrahmsWriter

• 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