He is considered the grand seigneur of German film. Mario Adorf (89, "Via Mala") is now explaining his view of current social developments in Germany in an interview with "Bild am Sonntag". When asked whether he was worried about society, the actor replied clearly: "If you look at the development, you have to be worried." He would have considered a new right movement to be completely impossible after the war.
"I thought that was finally overcome and could never happen again," adds Adorf, "but now exactly the same thing is happening again." That makes him "very, very sad and concerned." He did not know how to go on. He himself mentions his personal war experiences as essential. That's why no one should envy him, but it seems as if "sometimes the young people today" are missing.
It was an experience that was important: "There was hunger and there was the fear of death in the hail of bombs." He remembers the war as something really threatening and terrible: "These are experiences that I don't want anyone to have." You can only understand what physical hunger really is for years once you have got to know it yourself.