Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers review – inside the mind of an actor in meltdown

Narrator Rory Kinnear fully inhabits Klaus Kinski’s fury in this depiction of the irascible actor’s ill-fated performance in Berlin In 1971, the German actor Klaus Kinski performed a theatrical monologue called Jesus Christ Saviour at the Deutschlandhalle arena in Berlin, but things didn’t quite go to plan. A controversial figure in his lifetime, Kinski was irascible, egomaniacal and prone to violent temper tantrums. The film director Werner Herzog famously worked with Kinski on movies inclu...

By Fiona Sturges