Dir.: Helma Sanders-Brahms; Script: Helma Sanders-Brahms; Phot.: Roland Dressel; Ed.: Monika Schlinder, Nadine Schulze, Helma Sanders-Brahms; Mus.: Peter Kowald, Eckard Koltermann, Angelika Flacke; Cast: Lena Stolze, Cornelius Obonya, Rene Shubert, Leonard Schnitman, Anna Sanders, Janina Berge; Prod.: Helma Sanders-Brahms, Wartenburgstrasse 18, 10963 Berlin (Allemagne), tél.: (030) 215 83 44, fax: (030) 215 83 44; Sales: Filmverlag der Autoren, Rambergstrasse 5, 80799 Munich (Allemagne), tél.: (089) 38 17 00 30, fax: (089) 38 17 00 20 .

Else Lasker-Schüler, one of the pioneers of German Expressionism, had a tumultuous affair with the doctor and poet Gottfried Benn. They had loved each other and exchanged some of the most beautiful love poetry in German literary history -- passionate, sensual, desperate, wild. Their words were full of adoration... and hatred. Else was a Jew and Gottfried was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis. While he welcomed the changes in Germany she was obliged to leave the site of her greatest triumphs, wandering from country to country like a beggar until she found her true home, in Jerusalem. Gotfried soon realized his great mistake, however, when the Nazis condemned his art as "degenerate" and began banning his books. Germany was destroying its Jewish population, and itself. Gottfried's elegy to Else after her death is a declaration of his enduring love.