My Heart Is Mine Alone

My Heart Is Mine Alone

100 mins | Drama | Sept. 1, 1997

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.

My Heart Is Mine Alone

100 mins | Drama | Sept. 1, 1997

My Heart Is Mine Alone
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.
Producers Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE, Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion
Original title Mein Herz - Niemandem!
Directors Helma Sanders-Brahms
Writers Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast

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 / 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