As an entrance, it was electrifying. Dressed in the androgynous top hat and stockings in the style of Marlene Dietrich in The Blue Angel, he strode on to the screen radiating an erotic and dangerous glamour.That Helmut Berger's own life could match the sordid debauchery he brought so vividly to The Damned, the controversial 1969 film which told the story of a German arms manufacturing family and their ties to the rise of the Nazis, was incidental.In the film, Berger was the heir whose emotional tumult concludes with the rape of his mother and the forced suicide of her lover, played by Dirk Bogarde.
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