
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