My Heart Is Mine Alone
My Heart Is Mine Alone

My Heart Is Mine Alone

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1997
1h 40m
4.6(7 votes)
Drama

Overview

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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24 members
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Janina Berge

Else as a child

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Dagmar Bertram

Member of the Lasker family

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Klaus Bunk

Herwarth Walden

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Bruno Dunst

Professor

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Oliver Grice

Pastor Benn

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Julia Kiessling

Elses Schwester

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Julia Kiessling

Else's sister

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Cornelius Obonya

Gottfried Benn

Cornelius Obonya
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Stefan Ostertag

Franz Marc

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Sabine Panzer

Nell Walden

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Thomas Ruffer

Bertold Lasker

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Katja Ruttloff

Else's sister

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Anna Sanders

Edith

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Christian Schlemmer

Vasily Kandinsky

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Inken Schmitz

Member of the Lasker family

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Leonard Schnitman

Paul, Else's brother

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Rene Schubert

Adliger

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Tomek Schulz

Gottfried as a child

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Nikolai Sirenko

Else's father

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Valentina Sirenko

Else's mother

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Lena Stolze

Else Lasker-Schüler

Lena Stolze
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Wolfgang Tebbe

Member of the Lasker family

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Lothar von Versen

Peter Hille

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Matthias Wessolek

Kulturbonze

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