Killing Klaus Kinski

Spiros Stathoulopoulos
2016-03-02

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20 min

The hostility of the Amazon and its natural forces reach extremes during the shooting of a film. The overpowering jungle and harsh weather lead the film crew to plot the assassination of the main actor. As in cinema that scrutinizes itself, we revisit in a vertiginous sequence shot a myth of the history of film when in the toughest part of filming FITZCARRALDO, Werner Herzog phantasized about killing actor Klaus Kinski.