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HELMUT BERGER, MY MOTHER AND I

HELMUT BERGER, MEINE MUTTER UND ICH

By Valesca PETERS

SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH - as SALES All rights, Europe / DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY, German speaking

LGBT - Completed 2019

“Whatever happened to Helmut Berger?”, wonders Bettina Vorndamme, film fan in her prime. The Google results are shocking : Scandalising performances, an appearance on Jungle Camp, alcoholism! The actor seems but a shadow of his former self.

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- LGBT, Biography, Documentary
- Countries
- GERMANY
- Languages
- GERMAN, FRENCH, ENGLISH, ITALIAN
- Duration
- 82 mn
- Director(s)
- Valesca PETERS
- Synopsis
- “Whatever happened to Helmut Berger?”, wonders Bettina Vorndamme, film fan in her prime. The Google results are shocking: Scandalising performances, an appearance on Jungle Camp, alcoholism! The actor from "The Damned" and "Ludwig", once upon a time named "most beautiful man in the world”, seems but a shadow of his former self. The finance controller from Lower Saxony decides to put an end to his slow demise, driven by the conviction that all Berger needs to bounce back is a decent job. With the help of her daughter Valesca, she contacts Berger in Salzburg. Shortly thereafter, the German actor-icon is actually sitting in her farmhouse on the sofa, sipping coffee from Grandma's precious cups.
  
  A close friendship develops between the odd couple, with plenty of highs and lows. And then Helmut receives an offer, at the age of 73, to do his theatre debut at the Berliner Volksbühne...