Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me
My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow of the former icon seems to be left. She decides to halt the obvious catastrophic decline of the once “most handsome man in the world”. As a consequence, this one-time god of the screen is suddenly sitting on my mother’s sofa in Nordsehl in Lower Saxony. And he stays put - for several months. While he trustingly rolls out his whole life before us, the dividing lines between film team, world star and family intermingle. This is a film about ageing, rising and falling - and about the fact that it is sometimes possible to regain an element of dignity in life.
- Year: 2019
- Country: Germany
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Kobalt Productions, 3sat, ORF, nordmedia
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- Director: Valesca Peters
- Cast: Helmut Berger, Bettina Vorndamme, Karla Vorndamme, Ophelia Gassmann, Samia Tahanouti, Dr. Dietmar Peikert
