Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me

Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me

82 mins | Documentary | March 7, 2019

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.

Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me

82 mins | Documentary | March 7, 2019

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.
Producers 3sat, nordmedia, ORF, Kobalt Productions
Original title Helmut Berger, meine Mutter und ich
Directors Valesca Peters
Writers Valesca Peters

Cast

Helmut Berger

as Self

Karla Vorndamme

as Self

Richard Maschke

as Self

Birgit Insinger

as Self

Ernst Stahlhut

as Self

Matthias Harder

as Self

René Fietzek

as Self

Doris Kohn

as Self

Christin Bahro

as Self

Valesca Peters

as Voiceover

Paul Morrissey

as Self (archive footage)

Luchino Visconti

as Self (archive footage)

Albert Serra

as Self