Bettina Moissi (born 15 October 1923) is a German stage and film
actress. She played the female lead in the 1948 film Long Is the Road,
the first German film to portray the Holocaust.Moiss was born in
Berlin in 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Alexander
Moissi, a Christian of Albanian descent and Herta Hambach. Her father
was often branded as Jewish due to his name (which translates as
"Moses") and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and
people during a period of growing anti-semitism. She is Catholic but
was married to the Jewish Heinz Berggruen.In 1960, she married the art
collector Heinz Berggruen. They had two children:
actress. She played the female lead in the 1948 film Long Is the Road,
the first German film to portray the Holocaust.Moiss was born in
Berlin in 1923, the second child of leading stage actor Alexander
Moissi, a Christian of Albanian descent and Herta Hambach. Her father
was often branded as Jewish due to his name (which translates as
"Moses") and his outspoken defense of his fellow Jewish actors and
people during a period of growing anti-semitism. She is Catholic but
was married to the Jewish Heinz Berggruen.In 1960, she married the art
collector Heinz Berggruen. They had two children:
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