MY HEART IS MINE ALONE - DVD-GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Biography, Drama
• Plot: The life of Jewish Expressionist poet and performance artist, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945), told chronologically in vignettes given context by archival footage of turn-of-the-century Germany, World War I, and the ascent of the Third Reich. Her poetry often comprises the soundtrack. We see her in relation to men: her first husband, whom she leaves after her son is born; artists like Chagall and Franz Marc; an older muse and then a second husband; and, Gottfried Benn (1886 - 1956), physician and poet. Benn's life is also chronicled: homosexual encounters, his attraction to Else and the Berlin scene, and his politics. Her poems addressed to him define this cultural moment.
• Cast: Nicolai Albrecht, Janina Berge, Dagmar Bertram
• Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms
• Runtime: 90 min
• Media Format: movie