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| Berger, Segal and von Sydow |
Senta Berger is an Austrian actress who first came to my notice in the British film spy thriller The Quiller Memorandum that I caught late in the early seventies on TV. Her looks are stunning, there was a hush surrounding her on the screen and innocents, but she was far from that in this film.
She casts a tremendous charm as sweet and helpful teacher Inge Lendt but she is playing a double hand she is part of whom Quiller (George Segal) is looking for, the neo-Nazi organization in West Berlin headed by Max von Sydow. Unsurprisingly Quiller beds her and starts to full in love with her ever so slowly but unbeknown to him, she is sleeping with the head of the Nazis organization.
Captured, tortured Quiller stands his ground and managers to escape.
That the end of the film most of the Nazis are rounded up by British intelligence. At the end, Quiller walks into Inge's classroom. Inge explains that she "was lucky they let me go", but Quiller appears to have concluded that she is not who she seems, saying 'we got them all... well, maybe not quite all', the implication being that Inge is one of them
She came across the unsavoury side of Hollywood when film producer and studio executive Darryl Zanuck attempted a less-than-subtle attempt to get her on his casting couch, and of all the shallow people, she met in Hollywood. But that a side she starred in a number of Hollywood film projects before returning more or less to the European film and TV scene.
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| The stunning Senta Berger |
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