My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend German Mein liebster Feind Klaus Kinski , literally My Dearest Enemy Klaus Kinski is a 1999 German documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog, about his tumultuous yet productive relationship with German actor Klaus Kinski. It was released on DVD in 2000 by Anchor Bay.

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 oftrepeated 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.At the same time, Herzog expresses a deep respect for Kinskis acting talent. Interviews with two of the women who starred opposite him, Eva Mattes from Woyzeck and Claudia Cardinale from Fitzcarraldo, suggest that the actor had a calmer side. The final sequence in the film shows Kinski playing with a butterfly in the Peruvian jungle. ........

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