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Originally Posted by Wes  Just fresh from a screening of Aguirre Wrath of God, and in many ways its Herzog's most brilliant work, a sorrowful doom filled film, at it's heart a strange and mesmerizing turn by Klaus Kinski, all sneering gestures and crab-like movements. He seems so absorbed in the role it's difficult to draw the line between character and actor, the cast seem genuinely afraid of him...  |
By all accounts Klaus was quite a madman, although Jess Franco has said that he never had any problems with him at all. It seems a shame that cinema no longer has real characters like Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed or Richard Burton.