The background of this
roller coaster ride through the life of Kinski-Paganini is a spectacular
concert, at which Paganini as "diabolical vampire with a violin"
with his emotionally irresistible music, sets the audience on fire.
Thus Kinski-Paganini leads us through segments of his past and, like a diabolical
magician, foretells and envisions for us his unavoidable destiny. During
the overpower performance of Paganini´s music we relive, through the
unchecked mind of the demonical virtuoso, the main episodes of his damned
life that was continually dominated by his three great passions: the violin,
women and money.
Countless women were seduced by Paganini´s forces, which they found
both sensual and romantic. There were all types of women, from humble adolescent
virgins who brought with them first fights, unending trouble and jail sentences,
to the most powerful reigning european princess, who deluged him with honors
and gifts, to Antoinia Bianchi, his wife, who would give him his son Achille,
whom he loved more than everything in the world.
It is impossible to resist this miraculous violinist, believed by everyone
to be possessed by the devil.
With the soul of the
devil violinst in the body.
Kinski and Paganini
Klaus Kinski cannot
be defined an "actor".
Kinski doesn´t act, he embodies each character and lives it with his
whole being. He doesn´t pretend: he becomes because he "is".
Perhaps it´s hypersensitivity which makes him feel truly and sincerley
the pain and experience, the lives and vicissitudes of the characters he
incarnates.
"My body houses the souls of millions of people, animals and things
and these "demons" torment me, set traps and hile only to assail
me at the most unimaginable times. They poison my sleep, stangle me and
try to precipitate me in the abyss of madness. An endless alchemy".
Kinski has gone through experiences similar to those of Paganini who, as
a child, used to scream with pain from the vibration of a church bell.
He also has much in common with Eleonora Duse who said: "My soul is
a wound, bleeding inside my being".
Duse, like Kinski, had clairvoyant powers and both visions and paranormal
premonitions. Klaus Kinski has learned to control these forces, so much
so that he can express them as they are, without simulation.
As a child he discovers this ability when, for lack of other playthings,
he dresses up in his mother´s clothes in front of a mirror: "My
image impessed me: it was like a series of photographs, laid one on top
of the other. My clothes, which in reality were always the same, seemed
to change continually before my eyes, because of my imagination".
An unconscious embodiment yesterday by a child gifted with extraordinary
sensivity; a totally conscious embodiment today by a man who manages to
leave an indelible mark on each incarnation.
These are the definitions that have been given of Klaus Kinski: "The
most fascinating screen presence of our time", "The world greatest
actor", "A genious".
Kinski has been always indifferent towards the classification of his films,
whether it was Hollywood "supermarket", japanese porn or "spaghetti"
western of new german and french cinema.
For Kinski there are no classifications:" A first, second or third
rate film has nothing to do with me and therefore with all I can give of
myself-I am always me!".
"An authentic emotion which moves the heart is much more important
than a silly definition. A look of recognition by a child in Vietnam who
points at you on the street because he has seen your war film-this means
something!", says Kinski.
Because of his awareness, Kinski does not hesitate to call himself a "prostitute"
who "sells himself for money", but each time he himself has decided
to whom he sells himself and at what price.
His attitude is exactly the same as that of Paganini, who didn´t care
whether he played before an audience of drunkards or before the king.
In Vienna, on the Golden Jubilee, a cultural matinée was organized
for the personnel of the city´s cemetery. Kinski was asked to recite
a classical monologue and he accepted for a very high fee.
In a café in Berlin, Kinski sends the public delirious by reciting
Villon barefooted on a table. At the end of the performance he collects
money in a hat.