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Mein liebster Feind

Film still from MEIN LIEBSTER FEIND: Werner Herzog sits on a lying tree trunk and points to the jungle behind him.
© Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek

Tue 07.02.
20:00

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • Germany, UK / 1999
    95 min. / DCP / Original version

  • Original language

    German

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog remain closely linked to this day in the mind of the public. In 1999, eight years after Kinski’s death, Herzog shot a documentary about his hot-tempered star. Rejected by ZDF for fear it would end up as an exercise in “unbearable navel-gazing”, the film turned out to be a hit with audiences. MEIN LIEBSTER FEIND shows Kinski in diametrically opposed extremes: as someone bubbling over with rage, whose uncontrolled outbursts could also tip into violence, and as a sensitive and tender man plagued by an inner restlessness. 

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media