So basically, herzog gloats about exploiting kinski?

I watched this documentary and felt physically sickened by what I saw.

What really happened:

Herzog brought a mentally unstable schizophrenic all the way out into the jungles and for months kept provoking him into breakdowns and into getting angry, just for the sake of some dubious concept of 'energy' in acting.

Acting is already high pressure and being in the jungles is a lot of stress, add on top of that someone who has a history of mental illness, and what do you expect? For him not to scream about something every once in a while?

Then to paint Kinski as an unreasonable, crazy man who tried ruining the movie, and yourself as a good person who was a 'victim' of kinski... And to talk about how 'deep inside kinski wanted me to push him'.. That's just, despicable, in my opinion.

How is it that dozens of other directors managed to work with kinski??

I think herzog just wanted to make a little bit of cash by lying about kinski, and at the same time make himself look good.

*beep* you, herzog.