My Heart Is Mine Alone (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.
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- Helma Sanders-Brahms
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- Helma Sanders-Brahms
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Release Date: 1997-09-01
3.8/10
3.8/10
- Country: DE
- Language: Deutsch
- Runtime: 100
Else Lasker-Schüler
Gottfried Benn