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My Heart Is Mine Alone

My Heart Is Mine Alone

Genres

Drama

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Runtime

100 mins

Rating

4.4/10

Release Date

01 September 1997

Country

Germany

Cast

Nicolai Albrecht

Nicolai Albrecht

Marc Chagall

Janina Berge

Janina Berge

Else as a child

Dagmar Bertram

Dagmar Bertram

Member of the Lasker family

Klaus Bunk

Klaus Bunk

Herwarth Walden

Bruno Dunst

Bruno Dunst

Professor

Oliver Grice

Oliver Grice

Pastor Benn

Julia Kiessling

Julia Kiessling

Elses Schwester

Julia Kiessling

Julia Kiessling

Else's sister

Cornelius Obonya

Cornelius Obonya

Gottfried Benn

Stefan Ostertag

Stefan Ostertag

Franz Marc

Sabine Panzer

Sabine Panzer

Nell Walden

Thomas Ruffer

Thomas Ruffer

Bertold Lasker

Katja Ruttloff

Katja Ruttloff

Else's sister

Anna Sanders

Anna Sanders

Edith

Christian Schlemmer

Christian Schlemmer

Vasily Kandinsky

Inken Schmitz

Inken Schmitz

Member of the Lasker family

Leonard Schnitman

Leonard Schnitman

Paul, Else's brother

Rene Schubert

Rene Schubert

Adliger

Tomek Schulz

Tomek Schulz

Gottfried as a child

Nikolai Sirenko

Nikolai Sirenko

Else's father

Valentina Sirenko

Valentina Sirenko

Else's mother

Lena Stolze

Lena Stolze

Else Lasker-Schüler

Wolfgang Tebbe

Wolfgang Tebbe

Member of the Lasker family

Lothar von Versen

Lothar von Versen

Peter Hille

Matthias Wessolek

Matthias Wessolek

Kulturbonze

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