Woyzeck (1979)

6.6/10 82 min Drama

Overview

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.

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

Irm Hermann

Margret

Wolfgang Bächler

Jew

Rosemarie Heinikel

Herbert Fux

Unteroffizier

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