Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski (born Nikolaus Karl Günther Nakszyński the October 18th 1926 in Zoppot (Sopot), Territory of Dantzig, current Poland - November 23rd 1991 with Los Angeles, the United States) is a German actor .

Biography

Wire of a singer of opera second-rate and junior by four children, it is high in misery and must very early live product of its flights and plunders. With sixteen years and half, it is mobilized in the German army in full rout. Wounded during the last combat, it is made prisoner. In front of his companions of captivity, it goes up for the first time on the boards without it being for as much a true vocation.

It is towards the theater that it moves the shortly after its release, which has occurred in 1946. After some small roles of no importance, it appears, under the name of Klaus Kinski, in two parts of Jean Cocteau: the Typewriter , then the human Voice (1947), a long monolog in which it incarnates the role of a despaired woman, and of which the representation makes scandal…

It begins with the cinema in 1948, leaves Germany to rove to France, remade theater in 1951, then cinema as from 1955. It turns in several countries, in particular Italy, plays an episodical part in Doctor Jivago of David Lean, then leaves the shade with films of Werner Herzog.

Great Silence is the first film which draws to him the attention in France. Inter alia will follow " Justine de Sade" (1968), important is to like (1974), Mort of one rotted (1979). It literally haunts its films of its presence. He invents a particular way to enter the field of the camera while turning so as to be of profile then of face without seeming to move and without the camera not making any movement. It is the screw Kinski .

Klaus Kinski left a number impressing of films to its credit: police officers with the " westerns spaghetti" while passing by tens of series B and films of Werner Herzog: Aguirre, the anger of God (1972) where its incredible play encourages the director to speak about genius, follow-ups of Woyzeck , Nosferatu, phantom of the night and Fitzcarraldo in whom they reveals a talent quite as fantastic.

Charismatic actor, it is famous for his blows of head and his devastating angers. The difficult relations with the realizers whom they involve are the subject of documentary film of Werner Herzog, of which he was the actor fetish: Enemy close friends ( Mein Liebster Feind , 1999, sometimes translated by My Enemy intimates ).

From which does this magnetism come which catapults it in the forefront of the world high-speed motorboats? Perhaps of its disorder, precisely. Disorder which its provocante autobiography published in 1975 and translated into 1976 pennies describes the title: " To burst for vivre". In its book, he says all: its miserable childhood, its villainous adventures, its passions, its hatreds, its madnesses, its taste of disproportion. Sordid and moist pages, a little Celine, a bit Broom.

His/her daughter Nastassja Kinski also appeared a remarkable actress in Cosi Like Sei (of Alberto Lattuada, 1978) and Tess (of Roman Polanski, 1979).

Selective catalog of films

External bonds

  • Official site
  • Klaus Kinski on Internet Movie Database
  • Interview of Klaus Kinski in 1976

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