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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.

RATING

4.40

DIRECTOR

Helma Sanders-Brahms

COUNTRIE

Germany

RELEASE DATE

1997

TIME

1h 40m

GENRE

Drama