Presented by Goethe-Institut and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Abu Dhabi in cooperation with Institut Francais
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Director: Werner Herzog
Documentary, Germany, United Kingdom 1999
99 min.
Director + script Werner Herzog
Assistant Director Herbert Golder
Director of photography Peter Zeitlinger
Editing Joe Bini
Sound Eric Spitzer, Christian Simon
Music Popol Vuh
Participation Claudia Cardinale, Justo Gonzales, Mick Jagger, Eva Mattes, Benino Moreno Plácido, Klaus Kinski and more
Producer Lucki Stipetic
Production Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, München; Café Productions, London; Zephir Film GmbH, Düsseldorf
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
Werner Herzog was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and studied History and German Literature in Munich and Pittsburgh. He made his first film in 1961 at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature- and documentary films, such as Aguirre der Zorn Gottes (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD, 1972), Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (NOSFERATU, 1978), FITZCARRALDO (1982), Lektionen in Finsternis (LESSONS OF DARKNESS, 1992), LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (1997), Mein liebster Feind (MY BEST FIEND, 1999), INVINCIBLE (2000), GRIZZLY MAN (2005), ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2007), Die Höhle der vergessenen Träume (CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, 2010).
Werner Herzog has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. Werner Herzog lives in Munich and Los Angeles.
More information:
www.wernerherzog.com
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