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.
Valesca Peters
Director, Writer
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
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