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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Cast
Janina Berge
Else as a child
Dagmar Bertram
Member of the Lasker family
Klaus Bunk
Herwarth Walden
Bruno Dunst
Professor
Oliver Grice
Pastor Benn
Julia Kiessling
Elses Schwester
Julia Kiessling
Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya
Gottfried Benn
Stefan Ostertag
Franz Marc
Sabine Panzer
Nell Walden
Thomas Ruffer
Bertold Lasker
Katja Ruttloff
Else's sister
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