Klaus Kinski was a German actor. Equally renowned for his intense performance style and his notoriously eccentric and volatile personality off-screen, he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career th
Kinski at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
Kinski's birthplace in Sopot, Poland
Plaque marking Kinski's birthplace in Sopot
Kinski in For a Few Dollars More, 1965
Werner Herzog is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams,
Klaus Kinski
…he appeared in over 130 film roles in a career that spanned 40 years, from 1948 to 1988. He is best known for starring in five films directed by Werner Herzog from 1972 to 1987 (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu the Vampyre; Woyzeck; Fitzcarraldo; and Cobra Verde), who would later chronicle their tumultuous…
Herzog at the Venice Film Festival in 2025
Herzog at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival
Herzog at a press conference in Brussels, 2007
Boulevard der Stars in Berlin