Kinski Paganini (1989)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Klaus Kinski

Writer:

Klaus Kinski (writer)

Release Date:

25 May 1990 (Italy)

Genre:

Biography | Drama

Plot:

Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Female Nudity

Cast

Klaus Kinski	...	Niccolo Paganini
Deborah Caprioglio	...	Antonia Bianchi (as Debora Kinski)
Nikolai Kinski	...	Achille Paganini
Dalila Di Lazzaro	...	Helene von Feuerbach
Tosca D'Aquino	...	Angiolina Cavanna
Eva Grimaldi	...	Marie Anna Elise Bonaparte
Beba Balteano	...	Carol Watson
Fabio Carfora	...	Mr. Watson
Donatella Rettore	...	Miss Wells
Bernard Blier	...	Pater Caffarelli
André Thorent	...	Galvano
Marcel Marceau	...	Pantomime
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Vittorio Ciorcalo
Niels Gullov
Luigi Leoni
Hermann Weisskopf

Also Known As:

Paganini (short title)

Runtime:

81 min | 95 min (director's cut)

Country:

Italy | France

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

West Germany:16 | Italy:VM18

Company:

Président Films

Trivia:

Klaus Kinski wanted Werner Herzog to direct, but he turned it down.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski (1999)

very very bad

This was one of the worse movies I've ever seen. Poor of ideas, it covers just the maniac but the musician (and actor, too), it's just a soft-core porno that pretends to be poetic. Cameramen seem to be drunk or something all over the time. Music is annoying despite being protagonist. I've seen it in Italian, and Kinski choose not to be dubbed, so Paganini (who was from Genoa where the accent is soft and musical) speaks like a south-Tyrolian at Oktoberfest, pathetic. Stay away from this garbage or you'll lose faith in "fitzcarraldo" Kinksi as actor, and it's a pity, cause when he's directed by someone good, not him, he's great.