Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me (movie)
Helmut Berger, meine Mutter und ich- User score: 5
- Production country: Germany
- Producer: Valesca Peters
- Production companies: Kobalt Productions, 3sat, ORF, nordmedia
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 3/7/2019
- Run time: 82 min.
Movie description
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.
