“Please Kill Mr. Kinski”

THE FILM'S FACT SHEET / DATE: 3-12-03

ORIGINAL TITLE: “Please Kill Mr. Kinski”

COUNTRY/STATE OF PRODUCTION: Los Angeles, CA. USA

YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999

RUNNING TIME (including opening & end credits): 8:49 (not counting color bars & black opening)

RUNNING TIME (without end credits): 8:32 (not counting color bars & black opening)

B&W or COLOR: color

SOUND: MiniDV digital

ORIGINAL FORMAT – MiniDV digital tape

AVAILABLE FORMATS:_MiniDV; Beta SP; ¾; ½ / PAL Beta

RATIO:__ntsc 4/3

ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: English

SUBTITLED and/or DUBBED LANGUAGES: none

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DOCUMENTARY: XXX

RIGHT'S HOLDER/CONTACT:

NAME: David Schmoeller

3910 Woodhill Ave.

Las Vegas, Necada 89121

USA

Fax: 702-433-5127

Phone: 702-433-5127 or 702-895-4395
Email: david.Schmoeller@ccmail.nevada.edu OR schmoeller@earthlink.net

Production Company: none
DIRECTOR: David Schmoeller
PRODUCER: David Schmoeller
WRITER: David Schmoeller

CAST: Klaus Kinski & David Schmoeller
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: David Schmoeller

EDITOR: David Schmoeller

DISTRIBUTOR:

David Russell

BigFilmShorts

818-563-2633 / FAX 818-955-7650

info@bigfilmshorts.com

SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker David Schmoeller gives an amusing, first hand account of what it was like directing enfant terrible Klaus Kinski in a movie shot in Rome, Italy. Featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Kinski ranting against directors in particular and everything else in general, Schmoeller produces a funny but poignant portrait of a great actor.

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Aired on Bravo Channel and Independent Film Channel in 1999; Best of SplitScreen; Closing night screening, Chicago Underground Film Festival; Palm Springs International Short Film Festival; Summer Shorts, East Hampton; Los Angeles International Film Festival; The World Film Festival, Montreal; Antimatter Festival of Underground Short Film, Canada; Conucopia; Crested Butte Reel Fest, Silver Medal Winner; New York Underground Film Festival; opening teaser to Werner Herzog’s “My Best Fiend” at Brooklyn Academy of Music BAMcinematek in March, 2000 and still going...

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Writer-director David Schmoeller has been a feature film and television director for over twenty years. He recently returned from Romania where he directed “Mysterious Museum,” a family picture for Kushner-Locke Productions. Schmoeller’s next feature film with be “Catch the Wind,” a teenage love story set in Cuba.