KINSKI 100!

Klaus Kinski (1926–1991)

Deutscher Schauspieler, der vor allem für seinen intensiven, oft explosiven Darstellungsstil und seine ebenso exzentrische wie unberechenbare Persönlichkeit bekannt war.

Weltruhm erlangte er durch wegweisende Filme unter der Regie von Werner Herzog:

• Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
• Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
• Woyzeck (1979)
• Fitzcarraldo (1982)
 

Wir freuen uns den Dokumentar Film: Mein liebster Feind

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Renowned German actor famous for his intense, volatile style and a 40-year film career spanning over 130 roles.

Klaus Kinski wanted to put 'big red ants' in his director's eyes. Werner Herzog wanted the actor dead. Yet, he admits to Denis Staunton, he still misses him [...]

Werner Herzog doesn't look like a murderer. In his spartan office in Cologne, he smiles sweetly and gazes out his office window at the peaceful waters of the Rhine. But here he is, recounting how he very nearly killed his friend, Klaus Kinski.

'It was just a beautiful idea,' he says, 'like a beautiful screenplay with a perfect murder and alibis in all directions but it was close to reality because I was stopped very close to doing it. Shortly after that, I learned that he had equally precise, elaborate plans to kill me.' [...]

The director Werner Herzog and the actor Klaus Kinski were one of the most dazzling creative partnerships of the modern cinema, responsible for such epic, poetic films as Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo .

But their personal relationship was explosive and often violent, and they regularly brought filming to a halt with fist fights and murder threats.The feud was often thought to be just a movie legend, but more recently the full gory details have emerged. Or have they?

It is difficult sometimes to separate the fact from the fiction. [...]