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.
Director and cast
- 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
- Cornelius Obonya as Gottfried Benn
- Stefan Ostertag as Franz Marc
- Sabine Panzer as Nell Walden
- Thomas Ruffer Cast
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