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Woyzeck (DVD) (*)

$30.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
80 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1979 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog

Written By:
Georg Büchner (play)
Werner Herzog

Actors:
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
Dieter Augustin ..... Marktschreier
Irm Hermann ..... Margret
Wolfgang Bächler ..... Jew
Herbert Fux ..... Unteroffizier

Synopsis:

In Werner Herzog's brilliant adaptation of Georg Buchner's 'Woyzeck', Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless solider, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured, both physically and psychologically by commanding officers, doctors, and his unfaithful wife Marie (Eva Mattes, Best Supporting Actress at Cannes), Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his fragile sanity. In the film's shattering climax, he is finally driven over the brink into madness and murder.

Woyzeck, playwright Georg Buchner's anti-military tale of depersonalization run amok, has since its inception become a favorite of college theatre courses. Few campus productions of the Buchner piece, however, have been as fascinating as director Werner Herzog's 1978 adaptation. Utilizing the grotesquer elements of German expressionism, combined with his own sense of the outrageous, Herzog plunges us directly into the middle of his story of a soldier (Klaus Kinski) who is conditioned to be an unthinking killing machine through lab experimentation. His one vestige of humanity is his love for the beautiful Marie (Eva Mattes) but even this is corrupted when he is goaded into murdering the girl.

Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.