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My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

My Heart Is Mine Alone (1997)

Drama
Release Date: 1997, September 1
Directors: Helma Sanders-Brahms
Countries: Germany
Production: Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, ARTE, ARTE, WDR, WDR
Cast: Lena Stolze, Cornelius Obonya, Anna Sanders, Bruno Dunst, Janina Berge, Dagmar Bertram, Klaus Bunk, Oliver Grice, Julia Kiessling, Stefan Ostertag, Sabine Panzer, Thomas Ruffer

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.

Keywords:

woman director