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.
Top 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
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