Saturday, April 27, 2013

So old so nice A doppia faccia and Klaus Kinski


Double Face (Italian: A doppia faccia, German: Das Gesicht im Dunkeln) is a 1969 Italian thriller film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Klaus Kinski. It was released in France as "Liz and Helen", and later in a French adult version under the title "Chaleur et jouissance" (translation: "Heat and Pleasure"), it is so old Italian movie talking about a millionaire is unwittingly led into murder by his lesbian wife, the film is directed by Riccardo Freda produced by Oreste Coltellacci and Horst Wendlandt ,noting that Riccardo Freda ,Lucio Fulci,Paul Hengge,Romano Migliorini,Gianbattista Mussetto and Edgar Wallace do the writing and it is started by Klaus Kinski but who is this guy? Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best remembered as a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1987). He is the father of Nastassja Kinski, Pola Kinski, and Nikolai Kinski, all actors. In 2013 he was accused by his eldest daughter, Pola, of incest and sexually abusing her. These accusation were also supported by his younger daughter, Nastassja.Kinski's first film role was a small part in the 1948 film Morituri. He appeared in several German Edgar Wallace movies, and had bit parts in the American war films Decision Before Dawn (1951) and A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958). In Alfred Vohrer's Die toten Augen von London (1961), his character refused any personal guilt for his evil deeds and claimed to have only followed the orders given to him; Kinski's performance reflected the post-war Germans' reluctance to take responsibility for what had happened during World War II.

During the 1960s and 70s, Kinski appeared in various European exploitation film genres, as well as more acclaimed works such as Doctor Zhivago (1965), in which he played an Anarchist prisoner on his way to the Gulag. He relocated to Italy during the late 1960s, and had roles in numerous spaghetti westerns, including For a Few Dollars More (1965), A Bullet for the General (1966), The Great Silence (1968), and A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe (1975). He turned down a role in Raiders of the Lost Ark, describing the script as "moronically shitty".Eventually, his collaborations with director Werner Herzog brought him to international recognition. In all, they made five films together: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), Woyzeck (1978), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), and finally Cobra Verde (1987). In 1977 he starred as terrorist Wilfried Böse in the Israeli movie Operation Thunderbolt, based on the events of the 1976 Operation Entebbe. He co-starred as a violently evil killer from the future in a 1987 Sci-Fi based TV film Timestalkers, with William Devane and Lauren Hutton. His last film (which he also wrote and directed) was Kinski Paganini (1989), in which he played the legendary violinist Niccolò Paganini.Kinski reinforced his image as a wild-eyed, sex-crazed maniac in the 1988 autobiography, All I Need Is Love (rereleased in 1996 as Kinski Uncut). The book infuriated many, and prompted his daughter Nastassja to file a libel suit against him, which was soon withdrawn. Werner Herzog, in his retrospective film on Kinski, My Best Fiend (1999), would later say that much of the autobiography was fabricated; the two even collaborated on the insults about the director. For many years to come, Kinski's own writings were the only source for facts about his life and were not questioned or doubted by independent analysts. With My Best Fiend, in which the director also showed lighter and humorous aspects of Kinski's personality, this changed somewhat. In 2006 Christian David published the first comprehensive biography based on newly discovered archived material, personal letters and interviews with Kinski's friends and colleagues. This was followed by a paperback book by Peter Geyer containing essays on Kinski's life and work.In 2013, approximately 40 years after the alleged abuse stopped, and 20 years after his death, Kinski's daughter Pola published an autobiography in which she stated that he molested and abused her from the age of 5 until 19. Kinski's younger daughter, actress Nastassja Kinski, who is Pola's half-sister, was questioned about the matter in an interview published in the January 13, 2013, online issue of the German tabloid Bild. She claims Kinski would embrace her in a sexual manner. Kinski died 23 November 1991 of a heart attack in Lagunitas, California, at age 65. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He was survived by his daughters, Nastassja and Pola, and his son, Nikolai.

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