Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski DVD 1999 Legkedvesebb ellenségem (My Best Fiend) / Directed by Werner Herzog / Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Claudia Cardinale

UPC 5999881767377

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: English 2.0, German 2.0

SUBTITLES: English, Hungarian

Runtime: 95 minutes

English Summary:

The film opens with shots of Klaus Kinski performing, after his own interpretation, the role of Jesus. Kinski harangues the audience for not paying attention to him, curses wildly, has the microphone taken away from him, and, screaming, steals it back. Kinski left one of his Jesus tours to star in Herzog's film, Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). This was the first of five films that the two would make together, the others being Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978); Woyzeck (1978); Fitzcarraldo (1982); and Cobra Verde (1987).

Herzog tours a substantially renovated apartment that he and his family shared with Kinski and other boarders, looks at the first film clip he ever saw of Kinski, and presents footage from the sets of their various movies. He recounts the heated and sometimes violent altercations between them, including the oft-repeated story of how he threatened to shoot Kinski should he leave the production of Aguirre. He also draws on footage from Burden of Dreams (1982), a documentary about the making of Fitzcarraldo, which was a particularly difficult film for their relationship.

Hungarian Summary:

A német szerzői filmnek megvannak a maga nagy párosai: Fassbinder és Hanna Schygulla, Wim Wenders és Rüdiger Vogler. A legkarizmatikusabb kettőst azonban kétségkívül Werner Herzog és Klaus Kinski alkotta. A rendező nyolc évvel a színész halála után felkeresi a sorsszerű kapcsolat színhelyeit és állomásait. A müncheni lakást, ahol az akkor tizenhárom éves Herzog és a már befutott színész összeismerkedtek és egy darabig egy fedél alatt laktak, a Fitzcarraldo forgatási színhelyét a Dél-Amerikai őserdőben. Felidézi a legendás, kölcsönös gyilkossági fenyegetőzésekkel járó veszekedéseket a dühkitöréseiről ismert Kinskivel. A személyes hangú dokumentumfilm egy rendkívüli színészegyéniség portréja és egy különös barátság története.

German Summary:

Gezeigt werden Szenen aus allen fünf gemeinsamen Filmen: Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo (auch unveröffentlichte Aufnahmen mit Jason Robards und Mick Jagger) und Cobra Verde.

Herzog zeigt auch mehrere Wutausbrüche Kinskis, die während des Drehs aufgenommen wurden, sowie Ausschnitte aus Kinskis Jesus-Christus-Erlöser-Tournee Anfang der 1970er. Zu Wort kommen unter anderem Claudia Cardinale und Eva Mattes als ehemalige Drehpartnerinnen Kinskis.

Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor.

He appeared in more than 130 films, and was a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and Cobra Verde (1987). He also appeared in many Spaghetti Westerns, such as For a Few Dollars More (1965), A Bullet for the General (1966), The Great Silence (1968), And God Said to Cain (1970), Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead (1971) and A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975).

Kinski was a controversial figure, and some of his tantrums on set were filmed in Herzog's documentary My Best Fiend.^[8] He is the father of Pola, Nastassja, and Nikolai Kinski, born of three different marriages. They have all become actors and have worked in Germany and the United States, in film and TV.