My Best Fiend

May 17, 1999

1h 35m

★ 7.3

Overview

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Café Productions

Zephir Film

Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

My Best Fiend Trailers

Cast

Self

Werner Herzog

Self (archive footage)

Klaus Kinski

Self

Claudia Cardinale

Self

Eva Mattes

Self

Baron van der Recke

Self

José Koechlin von Stein

Self

Bill Pence

Self

Baronin van der Recke

Self (archive footage)

Beat Presser

Self (archive footage)

Guillermo Ríos

Self (archive footage)

Andrés Vicente

Self (also archive footage)

Justo González

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

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