Woyzeck

Shame, vengeance, terror... love.

Woyzeck — Plot

Having fathered an illegitimate child with his lover, Marie, feckless soldier Franz Woyzeck takes odd jobs around his small town to provide some extra money for them. One job is volunteering for experiments conducted by a local doctor, who puts Woyzeck on a diet of peas. This serves to drive him close to madness, and the discovery that Marie is involved in an affair with the local drum major exacerbates the situation. Pushed too far, Woyzeck resorts to violence.

• Release date
• May 25, 1979
• Runtime
• 82 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Werner Herzog

Woyzeck — Cast

Klaus Kinski Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck Eva Mattes Marie Wolfgang Reichmann Captain Willy Semmelrogge Doctor Josef Bierbichler Drum Major Paul Burian Andres Volker Prechtel Handwerksbursche

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Dieter Augustin Marktschreier