We know a lot about Mario Adorf – about his numerous parts in movies and plays, about the awards he received and about his life in Rome, Paris or St. Tropez.
However, he never talked or wrote much about his pivate life that had one center: his mother. Now, seven years after she passed away, the son is setting her a monument by telling her life in a deeply moving book. It is a son´s expression of gratitude to his mother.
He tells the story of an adventurous life full of privation – the story of a single mother who fights against all adversities of fate. Born in Zurich, then pushed away to Mayen/ Germany, she had to flee to southern Italy when she was a young woman. Pregnant, she returned to Switzerland and was then deported back to the German province where she had to face the sorrows of war and tough times after the war had ended. She had to bear poverty but worked hard as a tailor to keep herself and her son alive. She lived the life of an outsider in three different European countries in a century of catastrophes, social misery and intolerance.
But she also lived to see her son´s extraordinary career which made her proud. However, she never forgot her past and what it took to reach this fortune.
