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.
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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
Oliver Grice as Pastor Benn
Julia Kiessling as Elses Schwester
Julia Kiessling as Else's sister
Cornelius Obonya as Gottfried Benn
Stefan Ostertag as Franz Marc
Sabine Panzer as Nell Walden
Thomas Ruffer as Bertold Lasker
Katja Ruttloff as Else's sister
Anna Sanders as Edith
Christian Schlemmer as Vasily Kandinsky
Inken Schmitz as Member of the Lasker family
Leonard Schnitman as Paul, Else's brother
Rene Schubert as Adliger
Tomek Schulz as Gottfried as a child
Nikolai Sirenko as Else's father
Valentina Sirenko as Else's mother
Lena Stolze as Else Lasker-Schüler
Wolfgang Tebbe as Member of the Lasker family
Lothar von Versen as Peter Hille
Matthias Wessolek as Kulturbonze
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