My Best Fiend (Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski)
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, der Zorn Gottes (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.
July 31, 1947
14 December 1954, Tegernsee, Germany
15 April 1938, Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]
18 October 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
