My Best Fiend

(1999)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 223 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1999

Runtime: 99 мин

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Director: Вернер Херцог

Cast: Вернер Херцог, Клаус Кински, Claudia Cardinale, Эва Маттес, Baron van der Recke, José Koechlin von Stein, Bill Pence, Baronin van der Recke, Beat Presser, Гильермо Риос

Plot

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog traces the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.