Every man for himself and God against all

His life is a life for the ages, his memories are a literary event. An ever-hungry boy who fled with his mother from bombed Munich to a desperately poor village in the Alps. A teenager with an insatiable thirst for adventure who sets off alone and falls seriously ill in South Sudan, yet fights his way back to Egypt. A man who has a 340-ton steamship hoisted over a mountain in the middle of the jungle while keeping his volatile lead actor Klaus Kinski under control. A man who shows his dying friend Bruce Chatwin his film about nomads in small segments. A man who walks from Munich to Paris in winter to visit his sick mentor Lotte Eisner. Wild and gentle, full of unquenchable zest for life and wonder at our world.