Release Date: 1997-09-01
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: 3.833 / 10
Nicolai Albrecht
as Marc Chagall
Janina Berge
as Else as a child
Dagmar Bertram
as Member of the Lasker family
Klaus Bunk
as Herwarth Walden
Bruno Dunst
as Professor
Saskia Richter-Haase - Costume Design
Diana Sandführer - Makeup Artist
Ute Casper - Producer
Helma Sanders-Brahms - Editor
Christhart Burgmann - Producer
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