Austrian actor Helmut Berger is famous for his roles in the films of Luchino Visconti Les Damnés, as well as Ludwig : le crépuscule des dieux. We find here, in French, his beginnings, Visconti, the shooting of the Damned or the beauty of the actors.
Eve RUGGIERI talks with Helmut BERGER about the shooting of the movie "The Damned" by Luchino Visconti. He evokes a scene difficult to shoot for the beginner actor he was: the one where he imitates Marlene Dietrich. It was also Charlotte Rampling’s first "continent" film.
The actor Helmut BERGER says that he does not find himself beautiful, that it is others who find him beautiful, he knows that he is "an actor not bad". Physical beauty is for him "an accident of birth over which we have no control", it is the inner beauty that matters.
The actor Helmut BERGER evokes his acting debut, from his departure from Austria at 18 years old to his arrival in Italy where he shot commercial films before "The Damned".