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Klaus Kinski

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“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. ”

 

Biography

Though he invariably looked sickly and tubercular, Polish/German actor Klaus Kinski rose to fame in roles calling for near-manic aggressiveness. His war career consisted primarily of a year and a half in a British POW camp. After this experience, Kinski took to the theater, where he rapidly built a reputation for on-stage brilliance and off-stage emotional instability. He made his first German film, Morituri, in 1948; three years later, he made his English-language movie debut with a fleeting bit in Decision Before Dawn (1951). Villainy was Kinski’s film stock in trade during the 1950s and ‘60s, with several appearances in Germany’s Edgar Wallace second-feature series and in such Italian spaghetti Westerns as For a Few Dollars More (1965). International stardom came Kinski’s way via his off-the-beam appearances in the films of director Werner Herzog, notably Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973), Woyzeck (1978), Nosferatu (1979), and Fitzcarraldo (1982). With 1989’s Paganini, Kinski proved… read more

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anarxoaplytos

26Nov11

I swear he has the weirdest face ever

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Romeodelmare

12Dec10

A Genius. Like Me... (?)

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Pierre

10Sep10

Ich stimme zu, Herr Kinski!

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Grey Daisies

17May10

"Die sogenannte 'Klassifizierung' von Filmen ist das letzte Stadium der Gehirnerweichung (...) Es gibt keine 'wichtigeren' oder 'unwichtigeren' Filme. Für den einen ist das wichtig, für den anderen jenes. Es gibt nur entweder Faszination oder keine. Und es ist nicht Sache dieser lästigen Scheißfliegen von selbsternannten 'Kritikern' das zu beurteilen." (Klaus Kinski)

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The other Klaus Kinski films

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any good kinski?

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