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.
as Else as a child
as Member of the Lasker family
as Herwarth Walden
as Professor
as Pastor Benn
as Elses Schwester
as Else's sister
as Gottfried Benn
as Franz Marc
as Nell Walden
as Bertold Lasker
as Else's sister
as Edith
as Vasily Kandinsky
as Member of the Lasker family
as Paul, Else's brother
as Adliger
as Gottfried as a child
as Else's father
as Else's mother
as Else Lasker-Schüler
as Member of the Lasker family
as Peter Hille
as Kulturbonze
