My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)
Mein Herz - Niemandem!
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.
- Date of release
- 1997-09-01
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Helma Sanders-Brahms
Casting
- Janina Berge — Else as a child
- Dagmar Bertram — Member of the Lasker family
- Klaus Bunk — Herwarth Walden
- Bruno Dunst — Professor
- Oliver Grice — Pastor Benn
- Julia Kiessling — Elses Schwester
- Julia Kiessling — Else's sister
- Cornelius Obonya — Gottfried Benn
- Stefan Ostertag — Franz Marc
- Sabine Panzer — Nell Walden
- Thomas Ruffer — Bertold Lasker
- Katja Ruttloff — Else's sister
Interesting facts
My Heart Is Mine Alone is a 1997 German experimental drama film directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms. A 1997 issue of Jewish Currents wrote that the film is "a kind of German movie that usually requires more than one screening to decipher and is made for avant-garde devotees."
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