My Heart Is Mine Alone
1997Helma 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.
Acted in
Nicolai Albrecht
as Marc Chagall
Janina Berge
as Else as a child
Dagmar Bertram
as Member of the Lasker family
Klaus Bunk
as Herwarth Walden
Bruno Dunst
as Professor
Oliver Grice
as Pastor Benn
Julia Kiessling
as Elses Schwester
Julia Kiessling
as Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya
as Gottfried Benn
Stefan Ostertag
as Franz Marc
Sabine Panzer
as Nell Walden
Thomas Ruffer
as Bertold Lasker
Katja Ruttloff
as Else's sister
Anna Sanders
as Edith
Christian Schlemmer
as Vasily Kandinsky
Inken Schmitz
as Member of the Lasker family
Leonard Schnitman
as Paul, Else's brother
Rene Schubert
as Adliger
Tomek Schulz
as Gottfried as a child
Nikolai Sirenko
as Else's father
Valentina Sirenko
as Else's mother
Lena Stolze
as Else Lasker-Schüler
Wolfgang Tebbe
as Member of the Lasker family
Lothar von Versen
as Peter Hille
Matthias Wessolek
as Kulturbonze