Ua make ʻo ia "me ka maluhia akā ʻaʻole i manaʻo ʻia" ma Salzburg i ke kakahiaka Poaha, ma mua koke o kona lā hānau 79. Pela ka olelo pokole i hoolaha aku ai kona oihana i ka make ana o Helmut Berger, ka hoku o ka hale ki'ionioni o Europa i na makahiki 1960 a me 1970. Ua ikeia e ka Luna Ho'okele Luchino Visconti, he mayor 38 makahiki, ua mahalo 'o ia i ka hiki. e hōʻike ʻo ia ma kahi hoʻohui i ke kiʻiʻoniʻoni 'The Fall of the Gods' (1969), ka hoʻomaka ʻana o kāna hōkū honua. I loko o kēia kiʻiʻoniʻoni, hoʻokani ʻo ia i kahi ʻōpio Nazi i hoʻi i ka hoʻomāinoino. Ma 'Ludwig II' (1973) ua hoʻokani ʻo ia i ke aliʻi eccentric o Bavaria, me Romy Schneider ʻo Elizabeth a hoʻolaʻa iā ia iho i ka hoʻonani ʻana i ka honua. No Visconti, ma waho aʻe o kāna muse, ʻo ia kāna aloha nui.
ʻO ke keiki a kahi ʻohana hōkele, i hānau ʻia ma Bad Ischl e like me Helmut Steinberger, ua hoʻohana ʻo Berger i kona wā kamaliʻi a ʻōpio ma Salzburg, akā hoʻokani kaulana ʻo ia ma Paris a me Lākana, a me ka mea keaka, ma ke ʻano he couturier a me ke ʻano kiʻi kiʻi. He kanaka uʻi ʻo ia a ua loaʻa iā ia nā kuleana he nui, akā ua piʻi hou kāna ʻoihana a ʻaʻole paha ʻo ia e ʻae i ka pōʻino i nā makahiki i hala. Eia naʻe, ʻo ka mea i ʻike iā ia, no ka laʻana, ma 'Liberté' (2019) na Albert Serra, kekahi o kāna mau hiʻohiʻona hope loa, e ʻike maʻalahi i kāna mau talena i hōʻiliʻili ʻia i nā makahiki a me nā hiʻohiʻona o kahi nani kahiko.
Helmut Berger, kaulana no kāna kiʻi ʻana iā 'Saint-Laurent', ma ka 2014 Cannes Film Festival Afp
Ua hoʻokō ʻia kona ola hoʻopau a me ka hilahila e like me kāna mau hana. Ma kāna moʻolelo pilikino, nona ka inoa maopopo ʻo 'I, Berger', wehewehe ʻo ia iā ia iho ma nā ʻaoʻao mua ʻo ia ka hoʻopaʻi ʻana iā Alain Delon, ka mea e hilinaʻi nei iā ia no nā kuleana. Moe ʻo ia me ka wahine a Delon, ʻo Nathalie, a laila me Maria Schneider, ka protagonist pōʻino o 'Last Tango ma Paris'. Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia nona iho, hoʻokahi wale nō mea i ke ola i mea nui iā ia: ʻo ke aloha. I kona wā kamaliʻi, ua loaʻa iā ia ke aloha 'nui' mai kona makuahine a hoʻomau i ka ʻimi ʻana a hiki i ka hopena i kahi mea like ʻole e loaʻa ʻole iā ia.
ʻO ka make ʻana o Visconti, i ka makahiki 1976, ua hoʻokomo ʻia ʻo Berger i loko o kahi pilikia hohonu, kahi i puka mai ai ʻo ia me nā hana poina ʻole, e like me ka mea pepehi kanaka ma 'Der Tollwütige' (1977) na Sergio Grieco, kona helehelena ma 'Salon Kitty', ka Opulent Nazi Porn na Tinto Brass, a i ʻole he ʻumikūmākahi mau ʻāpana o ke kīwī 'Denver Clan' ma 1983/84. Ma kekahi ʻano, mai kona ʻeleʻele ponoʻī, ua loaʻa iā ia kahi ala ma waena o ka ʻōpala a me ka hoʻomana. Ua ʻike ʻo Christoph Schlingensief a hoʻohui ʻia i kāna hoʻokupu iā Fassbinder 'The 120 Days of Bottrop'. A i ka makahiki 1993 ua kiʻi ʻia nā kaikunāne Dubini iā 'Ludwig 1881' me ia, a ua unuhi hou ʻo ia i kāna moʻolelo ponoʻī o ka decadence.
