My Heart Is Mine Alone
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."
Plot
The story of the real-life love affair between Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn is told largely through their poetry throughout the film. Lasker-Schüler is forced to leave the country because of the very ideology Benn espouses, and while she drifts from country to country en route to Jerusalem, he eventually realizes his mistake when the Nazis condemn his artistic school.Cast
- Lena Stolze as Else Lasker-Schüler
- Thomas Ruffer as Berthold Lasker
- René Schubert as Noble
- Katja Ruttloff as Else Lasker-Schüler's Sister
- Anna Sanders as Edith Benn
- Cornelius Obonya as Gottfried Benn
- Tomek Schulz as Young Gottfried Benn
- Christian Schlemmer as Wassily Kandinsky
- Janina Berge as Young Else Lasker-Schüler
- Stefan Ostertag as Franz Marc
- Nicolai Albrecht as Marc Chagall
- Inken Schmitz as Lasker Family Member
- Wolfgang Tebbe as Lasker Family Member
- Dagmar Bertram as Lasker Family Member
- Matthias Wessolek as Fat Cat
- Klaus Bunk as Herwarth Walden
- Sabine Panzer as Nell Walden
- Oliver Grice as Gustav Benn
- Lothar von Versen as Peter Hille
- Julia Kiessling as Else Lasker-Schüler's Sister
- Leonard Schnitman as Paul Schüler
- Nikolai Sirenko as Aaron Schüler
- Valentina Sirenko as Jeannette Schüler
- Bruno Dunst as Professor