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My Best Fiend is a film of genre Documentary directed by Werner Herzog with Werner Herzog

My Best Fiend (1999)

My Best Fiend
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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.

Synopsis

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).

Actors

Werner Herzog

(Self)Klaus Kinski

(Self (archive footage))Eva Mattes

(Self)Isabelle Adjani
Claudia Cardinale

(Self)
And :
Mick Jagger
Thomas Mauch
Maximilian Schell
Jason Robards
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