Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger

Birthday: 1944-05-29

Place of Birth: Bad Ischl, Austria

Biography: Helmut Berger (born Helmut Steinberger, 29 May 1944 - 18 May 2023) was an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He was most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award. He appeared primarily in European cinema, but also acted in films such as The Godfather Part III and Iron Cross. Description above from the Wikipedia article Helmut Berger, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia d...

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Ludwig
Ludwig

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

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The Mad Dog Killer
The Mad Dog Killer

Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. T...

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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friend...

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Victory at Entebbe
Victory at Entebbe

The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Enteb...

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Salon Kitty
Salon Kitty

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been...

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Faceless
Faceless

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret in...

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The Romantic Englishwoman
The Romantic Englishwoman

A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return w...

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The Damned
The Damned

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictato...

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The Bloodstained Butterfly
The Bloodstained Butterfly

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems ob...

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Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray

London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterio...

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The Biggest Battle
The Biggest Battle

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of wh...

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L'Affaire Dreyfus
L'Affaire Dreyfus

In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French offic...

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Initiation
Initiation

16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gu...

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Honey Baby
Honey Baby

An American, with a past as a successful musician, makes a living by playing at weddings and the lik...

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Code Name: Emerald
Code Name: Emerald

In preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi occupied territory, the 'overlord...

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Conversation Piece
Conversation Piece

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is c...

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Helmut Berger - Mein Leben
Helmut Berger - Mein Leben

In 2005, Helmut Berger returned to the landmarks of her career, in Rome and on the island of Ischia....

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Deadly Game
Deadly Game

A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party ...

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Order to Kill
Order to Kill

An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he...

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Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection
Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection

Celebration: The Video Collection is a greatest videos DVD compilation by American singer-songwriter...

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Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei
Best of Harald Schmidt - Respektlos und Rezeptfrei

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Teo
Teo

Teo is a Somali boy living in Rome, where his mother works in service to a wealthy family. Friendly ...

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The Shadow of the Pharaoh
The Shadow of the Pharaoh

Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic...

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Under the Palms
Under the Palms

This film was shot entirely in Rotterdam and shows the German couple David (Helmut Berger) and Tanya...

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Love Me Strangely
Love Me Strangely

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. ...

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Last Cut
Last Cut

A group of boys with a strong desire to escape from their hometown and discover the rest of the worl...

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Ludwig: A Journey to the End of the Night
Ludwig: A Journey to the End of the Night

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Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell
Fireflower: The Two Lives of Marisa Mell

Who was Marisa Mell? The personae Marisa Mell and Marlies Theres Moitzi, the famous Graz actress’ re...

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Damals warst Du still
Damals warst Du still

Detective Mona Seiler’s new case: 17-year-old Samuel Plessen, son of famed psychotherapist Fabian Pl...

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Iron Cross
Iron Cross

Joseph, a retired New York police officer and Holocaust survivor, travels to Nuremberg to visit his ...

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What Did Stalin Do to Women?
What Did Stalin Do to Women?

Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the...

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The Voracious Ones
The Voracious Ones

On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the est...

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Reigen
Reigen

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a...

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Saint Laurent
Saint Laurent

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came ...

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The Devil's Violinist
The Devil's Violinist

The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso i...

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The Witches
The Witches

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels t...

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Timeless
Timeless

Time travel comedy with an international cast: In 1932, Arnold disappears and suddenly finds himself...

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The Kiss (let's Play Dynasty)
The Kiss (let's Play Dynasty)

Written as a reading of a screenplay of the popular soap opera Dynasty, “The Kiss (let’s play Dynast...

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Fatal Fix
Fatal Fix

A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prost...

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Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes
Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes

Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form ...

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Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday

Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but h...

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Femmes
Femmes

Helmut is fed up traveling around he world. Coming back from Asia, he decides to stay some time in A...

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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
The Garden That Doesn't Exist

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It...

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Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema
Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema

Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne ‘Ilsa’ Thorne, Mal...

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Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion
Luchino Visconti: Between Truth and Passion

Forty years after his death, this documentary pays tribute to one of the major filmmakers of Italian...

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Bailey on Visconti
Bailey on Visconti

Bailey interviews Italian film director Luchino Visconti....

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Great Transport
Great Transport

This WW2 epic was one of the last movies of that kind made in former Yugoslavia. It tells the true s...

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Boomtown
Boomtown

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Le rose di Danzica
Le rose di Danzica

The plagued climate of the era is realized in the encounter and later in the friendship between the ...

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The Young Tigers
The Young Tigers

Five teenagers decide to steal money from someone who could not accuse them of the theft. Panini, a ...

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Ludwig 1881
Ludwig 1881

In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef ...

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Helmut Berger, Actor
Helmut Berger, Actor

An intimate portrait of the legendary actor and former Luchino Visconti "muse" Helmut Berger, who – ...

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Act of Revenge
Act of Revenge

A dying man gives his lawyer a tape that manipulates her into taking a posthumous revenge on those w...

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My Wife is a Witch
My Wife is a Witch

A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to ...

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Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble
Victòria! La gran aventura d'un poble

In the middle of the first world war, Barcelona is the center of multiple operations related to war,...

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Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17
Victòria! 2: La disbauxa del 17

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Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa
Victòria! 3: El seny i la rauxa

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La colonna infame
La colonna infame

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni....

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Luchino Visconti: The Quest for the Impossible
Luchino Visconti: The Quest for the Impossible

A Dominique Maillet's documentary about Visconti in the set of "Conversation Piece"....

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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Fifty Shades of Erotica

Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fif...

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The 120 Days of Bottrop
The 120 Days of Bottrop

An eccentric homage to the Rainer Werner Fassbinder days of German filmmaking....

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Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me
Helmut Berger, My Mother and Me

My mother googles the film hero of her youth: Helmut Berger. She is shocked: only an addicted shadow...

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Liberté
Liberté

1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval,...

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Skipper
Skipper

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The Fifth Commandment
The Fifth Commandment

A notorious gang of robbers threaten the Ruhr region of Germany in the 1920s....

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Adelaide
Adelaide

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Portae Infernales
Portae Infernales

Three directors open their personal gates to hell and let us glimpse into the abyss of the human sou...

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Murder Sisters
Murder Sisters

After 20 years in prison, the former angel of death at Lainz hospital has been released, and she now...

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Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls
Zapping-Alien@Mozart-Balls

Advertising designer Joe is having financial trouble. His girlfriend Mary convinces him to accept a ...

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