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Senta Berger (2018)
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The actress Senta Berger reports having experienced sexual abuse on the set repeatedly in her career.
During the filming of “It doesn't always have to be caviar” (1961), the actor OW Fischer tried to rape her: “After that I should have said: I can't shoot with you tomorrow and I can't make this film with you.
But OW Fischer knew that I wouldn't say that, «Berger told Die Zeit.
After the six weeks of filming, OW Fischer apologized to her with the Faust quote "The eternal feminine draws us up".
As early as 2006, Berger had reported for the first time in her book "I knew that I can fly" about Fischer's attack and also made allegations of abuse against the actors Charlton Heston and Richard Widmark.
In the »Zeit« interview she also mentions that the actor Kirk Douglas, who came from a Russian-Jewish family, tried to kiss her against her will.
Berge around Douglas stood together in front of the camera for the US war film "The Giant's Shadow" (1966).
When she resisted, he justified himself with the sentence: "Your people killed my people," said Berger.
“I found that an incredible combination.
Perhaps one should have spoken to the psychoanalyst Margarete Mitscherlich about this.
About that erotic attraction that a "was baby" obviously had.
About the fascination of the humiliation one could inflict on him. "
#MeToo, so Berger, would have changed the power balance and the gender balance: »But in my opinion there is too much discussion about the language and gender asterisks and too little about the real relationships.
And too much about actresses and too little about cleaning women or bus drivers. "
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