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