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.
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, Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya
Gottfried Benn
Stefan Ostertag
Franz Marc
Sabine Panzer
Nell Walden
Thomas Ruffer
Bertold Lasker
Katja Ruttloff
Else's sister
Anna Sanders
Edith
Christian Schlemmer
Vasily Kandinsky
Inken Schmitz
Member of the Lasker family
Leonard Schnitman
Paul, Else's brother
Rene Schubert
Adliger
Tomek Schulz
Gottfried as a child
Nikolai Sirenko
Else's father
Valentina Sirenko
Else's mother
Lena Stolze
Else Lasker-Schüler
Wolfgang Tebbe
Member of the Lasker family
Lothar von Versen
Peter Hille
Matthias Wessolek
Kulturbonze
Crew
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
Monika Schindler
Editor
Nadine Schulze
Editor
Roland Dressel
Director of Photography
Christhart Burgmann
Producer
Ute Casper
Producer
Saskia Richter-Haase
Costume Design
Diana Sandführer
Makeup Artist
Thomas Erkelenz
Sound Recordist
Bernhard Joest
Sound Recordist
Josef Pörzchen Jr.
Sound Recordist
Angelika Flacke
Music
Eckard Koltermann
Music
Peter Kowald
Music
Dietmar Hildebrandt
Production Manager
Jutta Schiek
Unit Production Manager
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