Kinski, il mio nemico più caro (1999)
My Best Friend
Director/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Peter Zeitlinger – Film editor: Joe Bini – Sound: Eric Spitzer – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh) – Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 95’
Cast: Werner Herzog (voice over), Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Claudia Cardinale, Beat Presser, Guillermo Ríos, Andrés Vicente, Justo González, Benino Moreno Placido
The film:
“In the Fifties, the teenager Herzog shared the flat with Klaus Kinski, an egocentric and maniacal artist. Kinski, during a fit of blind anger, destroyed the furniture of the apartment in less than two days, but from that chaos derived a lasting collaboration and friendship. In this intimate documentary, the director evokes the ups and downs and the violent conflicts of his relationship with Kinski, returning to the flat in Monaco where they have met and going back to the places where they have shot their films.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 305]
The film restoration:
The preservation of My Best Friend was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original Super16 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
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