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Paganini

  • 19891989
  • 1h 21m
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5.1/10
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Klaus Kinski in Paganini (1989)
A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini.
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A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini.A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini.A biography of Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini.
IMDb RATING
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1.1K
YOUR RATING
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Klaus Kinski
  • Stars
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Debora Caprioglio
    • Nikolai Kinski
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Klaus Kinski
  • Stars
    • Klaus Kinski
    • Debora Caprioglio
    • Nikolai Kinski
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    • 19User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Klaus Kinski
    Klaus Kinski
    • Niccolò Paganini
    Debora Caprioglio
    Debora Caprioglio
    • Antonia Bianchi
    • (as Debora Kinski)
    Nikolai Kinski
    Nikolai Kinski
    • Achille Paganini
    Dalila Di Lazzaro
    Dalila Di Lazzaro
    • Helene von Feuerbach
    André Thorent
    André Thorent
    • Galvano
    Eva Grimaldi
    Eva Grimaldi
    • Marie Anna Elise Bonaparte
    Marcel Marceau
    Marcel Marceau
    • Pantomime
    Donatella Rettore
    • Miss Wells
    Bernard Blier
    Bernard Blier
    • Caffarelli
    Beba Balteano
    • Carol Watson
    Fabio Carfora
    • Mr. Watson
    Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
    Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
    • Judge
    • (as Feodor Chaliapin)
    Vittorio Ciorcalo
    Tosca D'Aquino
    Tosca D'Aquino
    • Angiolina Cavanna
    Niels Gullov
    Luigi Leoni
    Espérance Pham Thai Lan
    Espérance Pham Thai Lan
    • Gamine
    • (voice)
    Hermann Weiskopf
    Hermann Weiskopf
        • Klaus Kinski
        • Klaus Kinski
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      • Trivia
        Klaus Kinski wanted Werner Herzog to direct, but he turned it down.
      • Quotes

        Niccolò Paganini: Music comes from fire, from the inside of the earth, the sea, the heaven. The Italian heaven is framed of fire. ltaly is the land of fires.

      • Alternate versions
        A 95 min "versione originale" director's cut is available on the new German 2 DVD set.
      • Connections
        Featured in Klaus Kinski - Ich bin kein Schauspieler (2000)
      • Soundtracks
        Concerto for Violin and Orchestra N.1 in D Major, Op.6
        Written by Niccolò Paganini

        Performed by Salvatore Accardo (violin) and London Philharmonic Orchestra with Charles Dutoit)

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      I have to conclude: Jerking off at our expense
      I watched Paganini for the first time, then ran to watch bits of Fitzcarraldo again. I just realized why: It was the armchair cineaste's equivalent of taking a shower to rinse the muck off after watching Paganini.

      I needed to watch Fitzcarraldo to remind myself that, yes, Kinski was a great actor. And he was.

      I never thought I'd actually find a genuine-article case of this, but in Paganini you have Kinski finally using film--and his fans--as a full-tilt surrogate for his fading fantasy that he's the rooster in the barnyard.

      It really is shameless. People thought that Woody Allen used film like this way long after he shoulda. Well, guess what? Allen is a piker.

      If you're curious to see a great film star at his lowest ebb in this particular regard, watch Paganini.

      Now, people in these comments extol the natural lighting, Kinski's raw magnetism, the unstudied editing, the artful inattention to technique in general, genuinely moving scenes of familial love, etc., etc. Yes, all those things are arguably there. I'm not just being conciliatory for rhetorical effect. But there comes a time when you have to admit the evidence of what you're seeing before your very eyes, and the conclusion is inescapable: Kinski is jerking off at our expense. He's not just exercising an eccentric degree of artistic license. He's lost in unfiltered, unsublimated sexual self-aggrandizement.
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      • rzajac
      • Mar 23, 2007

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        • May 25, 1990 (Italy)
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        • Italy
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        • Scena Film
        • Reteitalia
        • Président Films
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      • 1 hour 21 minutes
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