The film begins with glimpses of Kinski speaking to a lecture audience in his messianic mode, and then screaming at a heckler who comes on stage. "I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power.” - Kinski thunders on- “ I am not your superstar." The heckler finally gains the microphone: "1 doubt that Jesus was like Kinski. Jesus was a patient man, he didn't say `shut up' to those who contradicted him!" Kinski wrangles the mike away from him and declares that he will not continue until this "miserable jerk" leaves; then he walks away in great, angry strides, throwing microphone and tripod off the stage. Herzog also revisits Peru to explain his vision for Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo and how Kinski turned an already tough job into pure hell for everyone. .) One Peruvian actor shows us his scars from being attacked by Kinski with a sword and tells how extras were injured in a wild shooting spree. In Machu Picchu to shoot ''Aguirre,'' Kinski is seen ignoring the director's suggestions and announcing: ''You have to beg me. Even David Lean did
that.'' (The actor turned up in ''Dr. Zhivago.'') ''And Brecht, too.'' Actresses Eva Mattes (Woyzeck) and Claudia Cardinale (Fitzcarraldo) portray a different Kinski, both tender and supportive, although Cardinale admits Kinski was "a nut" and his fear of being touched reminded her "of Michael Jackson". And Herzog also has fond memories of Kinski, with clips of their visit to the Tellluride Film Festival, and a beautiful final sequence of Kinski playing with a butterfly in the jungle. Ultimately, however, Herzog saw the actor as "burned out like a comet" by the end of their work together in 1987. Kinski died a few years later in 1991 in Marin County, California.