My Heart Is Mine Alone

The story

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 & crew

Janina Berge

Janina BergeElse as a child

Dagmar Bertram

Dagmar BertramMember of the Lasker family

Klaus Bunk

Klaus BunkHerwarth Walden

Bruno Dunst

Bruno DunstProfessor

Oliver Grice

Oliver GricePastor Benn

Julia Kiessling

Julia KiesslingElses Schwester

Julia Kiessling

Julia KiesslingElse's sister

Cornelius ObonyaGottfried Benn

Stefan Ostertag

Stefan OstertagFranz Marc

Sabine Panzer

Sabine PanzerNell Walden

Thomas Ruffer

Thomas RufferBertold Lasker

Katja Ruttloff

Katja RuttloffElse's sister