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Mein liebster Feind

Deutschland Großbritannien 1998/1999 Dokumentarfilm

My Best Fiend - Klaus Kinski

A chain of coincidence brings the 13-year-old Werner Herzog together with Klaus Kinski in the same apartment in Munich. In an unabated, 48-hour fit of rage, Kinski immediately proceeds to lay waste to all the furniture, only one of many such fits to follow. Herzog therefore knows what awaits him when, some years later, he engages Kinski to work with him on Aguirre, the Wrath of God, their first film together. Four more films will follow. My Best Fiend is a film about the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski - utterly puzzling to outsiders - about deep trust between an actor and a director, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Werner Herzog

Screenplay

  • Werner Herzog

Director of photography

  • Peter Zeitlinger

Editing

  • Joe Bini

Music

  • Popol Vuh (München) (Amadeo, "Die Lästerungen")

Production company

  • Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (München)
  • Cafe Productions (London)
  • Zephir Film GmbH (Düsseldorf)

Producer

  • Lucki Stipetić

Alle Credits

Director

  • Werner Herzog

Assistant director

  • Herbert Golder

Script supervisor

  • Anja Schmidt-Zäringer

Screenplay

  • Werner Herzog

Director of photography

  • Peter Zeitlinger

Assistant camera

  • Erik Söllner

2nd Camera unit

  • Les Blank

Still photography

  • Silvia Vas
  • Werner Janoud

Production design

  • Ulrich Bergfelder

Editing

  • Joe Bini

Assistant editor

  • Thomas Staunton
  • Thad Povey
  • Renate Hähner

Sound editor

  • Josh Rosen
  • Thad Povey
  • Renate Hähner

Sound

  • Eric Spitzer
  • Christian Simon

Audio mixing

  • Hubertus Rath

Research

  • David Silberberg

Music

  • Popol Vuh (München) (Amadeo, "Die Lästerungen")

Participation

  • Claudia Cardinale
  • Justo Gonzales
  • Werner Herzog
  • Mick Jagger
  • Eva Mattes
  • Benino Moreno Plácido
  • Beat Presser
  • Guillermo Rios
  • Thomas Mauch
  • Andrés Vicente
  • Bill Pence
  • Baron von der Recke
  • José Koechlin von Stein
  • Baronin von der Recke
  • Klaus Kinski
    Mitwirkender in Filmzitaten
  • Isabelle Adjani
    Mitwirkende in Filmzitaten
  • Jason Robards
    Mitwirkender in Filmzitaten
  • Maximilian Schell
    Mitwirkender in Filmzitaten
  • Therese Giehse
    Mitwirkende in Filmzitaten
  • Walter Saxer
    Mitwirkender in Filmzitaten

Voice

  • Werner Herzog

Production company

  • Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (München)
  • Cafe Productions (London)
  • Zephir Film GmbH (Düsseldorf)

in association with

  • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) (Köln)
  • Arte G.E.I.E. (Straßburg)
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München)
  • Yleisradio TV 1 (Helsinki)

Commissioned by

  • British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London)

Producer

  • Lucki Stipetić

Producer (TV)

  • Sabine Rollberg

Line producer

  • André Singer
  • Christine Ruppert

Unit production manager

  • Ulrich Bergfelder

Production manager

  • Monika Kostinek

Original distributor

  • Zephir Film GmbH (Düsseldorf)

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Independent Film Channel (New York)

Shoot

    • München, Lima, Urubama Tal und Iquitos (Peru), Umgenung von San Francisco, Telc (CSR), Delft,
Duration:
2708 m, 99 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.08.1999

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 21.05.2000, Arte

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (GB) My Best Fiend
  • Originaltitel (DE) Mein liebster Feind
  • Untertitel (DE) Klaus Kinski

Versions

Original

Duration:
2708 m, 99 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Farbe + s/w, Dolby SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.08.1999

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 21.05.2000, Arte

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/mein-liebster-feind_ea43d4a6a5d75006e03053d50b37753d