My Heart Is Mine Alone

My Heart Is Mine Alone

4.4/101h 40m1997
My Heart Is Mine Alone

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion
ARTE
WDR

Additional Information

Original Title:Mein Herz - Niemandem!
Original Language:German
Status:Released

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