My Best Fiend

My Best Fiend

  • Director: Werner Herzog
  • Countries of origin: Germany, United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: German, English, Spanish
  • Release date: October 7, 1999
  • Sound mix: Dolby SR
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski
  • "Mein liebster Feind-Klaus Kinski" is a documentary directed by Werner Herzog, starring Isabel Adjani and Claudia Katina.
    The film tells the life story of Klaus Kinsky.

    Details

    • Release date October 7, 1999
    • Filming locations Peru
    • Production companies Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Cafe Productions Ltd., Zephir Film

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $95,612

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $7,677

    Movie reviews

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    • By Hertha 2022-02-22 08:01:32

      About Herzog and Kinsky's mode of getting along (joking)

      [Before filming] Herzog: I wrote the script in three or four days, great (sent to Kinsky) Kinsky: (I promised to play it immediately after reading it)

      [Filming] Kinsky: I'll go to your horse's recording and your horse's group performance! ! I'm going to your XXX! It's all rubbish! ! ! Try looking at me with this look? ! I fucked you! ! Herzog: ... (endurance) (The whole crew endures various Kinsky demon and accidents) Kinsky: Go to your director!...

    • By Sylvia 2022-02-22 08:01:32

      my best friend

      In this warm autumn afternoon, for some reason, I picked up this documentary nearly ten years ago and watched it. Herzog recorded the 95 minutes of his old friend, and he seemed uncomfortable.
      If you want to criticize me, first review yourself; at the beginning of the film, Kinsky yelled to the people in the theater: I am not Jesus, not your superstar. There is not much information available for Klaus Kinski on the Internet. The most famous one is the three things Herzog said when he...

    • By Lisa 2022-02-22 08:01:32

      My best friend Klaus Kinsky

      There are a few paragraphs in the film that I saw in the previous trips on the road, and I guess they were taken over later.
      Kinsky's eye-catching blond hair made him look like a fierce lion with mad hair. With the staring grin when roaring and the repeated training of chanting, you would think that he was experimenting with an angry character even if he was not filming.
      Kinsky's narcissism is not as theorized as Dali, but it is aggressive enough to exaggerate its wildness....

    • By Ruby 2022-02-22 08:01:32

      A hymn written by the devil to the devil

      In this world, what is more dazzling than the heroic sympathy is the crazy sympathy of the geeks and lunatics, such as Herzog and Kinsky in the film industry. One is an "anti-human" director, and the other looks like a lion ( If you like football, you can also say that he looks like Kahn) an actor who often loses control of his emotions. They have collided five times, leaving behind outstanding works such as "Aguirre, God's Wrath", "A Boat on Land", and "Wocek". At the same time, when the two...

    • By Lyla 2022-02-22 08:01:32

      About the loss of my friend

      "It's strange how memory can magnify one thing like that." Herzog said.

      "This is the scene of the place just now when the water level was high. It was like a metaphor for our noisy relationship." At the beginning of the film, I saw Herzog jumping freely on the rocky mountain stream. I was so sure that I never thought about myself. Maybe when I fell down the mountain stream, I couldn't help but think of what happened when my friend and I went to Bomi five years ago. We were passing...

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    • By Virginia 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Look when Kinski was young!...

    • By Quincy 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Elective affinities. ps: The goddess didn't appear as an interview guest, what...

    • By Aida 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      A very emotional documentary, Roaring Kim and Herzog are a natural...

    • By Bernardo 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      Basically a collection and source of many jokes that have been around for a long time. Herzog shared memories of this diabolical friend by revisiting the place and interviewing his...

    • By Devon 2022-03-27 09:01:20

      match made in...

    Background creation

    In order to retrieve the memory of Kinsky, Herzog brought the camera to the place he and Kinsky were familiar with again, and aimed the camera at the long-lost friend. The numerous images stripped of his own illusion in the record. On the outside, the silent truth was revealed. With time and light and shadow, Kinsky's pure face gradually became clear. He was not a strange animal far away from ordinary people, but an extreme specimen of...
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    Evaluation action

    At the beginning of "Mein liebster Feind-Klaus Kinski", Kinski was like a rock star and yelled at the audience in an unbelievable posture. A staff member came up and wanted to take him away, but he didn't care. Whether he was improper in words and deeds or gaffes. Because he is Kinsky, an actor with a special personality, a rebellious lion, and an actor who claims to have rejected the invitation of director N many. It seems that only...
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    Movie quotes

    • Kinski: No, He didn't say shut up...

      [now screaming:]

      Kinski: He took a whip and smacked their stupid faces! That's what he did, you stupid pig! And if only one of you wants to hear me he has to wait until this fucking scum has left!

    • Werner Herzog: Every grey hair on my head, I call Kinski.

    • Beat Presser: [Herzog and Presser are looking at Presser's famous picture of Kinski trying to strangle Herzog] I truly like this very much. It happened because he must have sensed the presence of your camera.

      Beat Presser: He also just wanted to let you have it, didn't he?