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.

• DirectorHelma Sanders-Brahms
• Release1 September 1997
• GenreDrama
• Duration1h 40m
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  Helma Sanders-Brahms Filmproduktion, ARTE, WDR