Senta Berger mourns her husband: Michael Verhoeven has died. The filmmaker set a tone with critical films about the Vietnam War and National Socialism.
The German filmmaker Michael Verhoeven is dead. The husband of actress Senta Berger died last Monday at the age of 85 after a short, serious illness, as the family announced on Friday in Munich. “A world has been lost. It’s unimaginably painful,” said his son, the director and screenwriter Simon Verhoeven.
Michael Verhoeven dealt intensively with National Socialism in his work, for example with the film “The White Rose” from 1982 about the resistance of Sophie Scholl and like-minded people. The satire “The Terrible Girl” (1990), about attempts to cover up Nazi crimes, was nominated for an Oscar.
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Verhoeven also shot entertainment formats such as the ZDF series “The Fast Gerdi” (1989) with his wife Senta as a Munich taxi driver. In 2016, he co-produced the successful 2016 comedy “Welcome to the Hartmanns,” which was directed by his son Simon. His younger son Luca is also active in the film industry.
Michael Verhoeven lived with Senta Berger in Munich until the end
Verhoeven was born on July 13, 1938 in Berlin, the son of the actress Doris Kiesow and the director and actor Paul Verhoeven. The family later moved to Munich. He gained his first experiences as an actor in small plays, then in the 1950s in films such as “The Flying Classroom” and “The Pauker” with Heinz Rühmann.
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