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.

Cast

Helmut Berger Self

Bettina Vorndamme Self

Karla Vorndamme Self

Ophelia Gassmann Self

Samia Tahanouti

Dr. Dietmar Peikert Self

Richard Maschke Self

Birgit Insinger Self

Ernst Stahlhut Self

Matthias Harder Self

René Fietzek Self

Christophe Montenez Self

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