Fresh
Woyzeck is, if possible, ever more mysterious by the time we reach the end than it is at the beginning.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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Woyzeck
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.
Director and cast
- Werner Herzog Director
- Klaus Kinski as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
- Eva Mattes as Marie
- Wolfgang Reichmann as Captain
- Willy Semmelrogge as Doctor
- Josef Bierbichler as Drum Major
- Paul Burian as Andres
- Volker Prechtel as Handwerksbursche (as Volker Prechtl)
- Dieter Augustin as Marktschreier
- Irm Hermann as Margret
- Wolfgang Bächler Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
85%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Handsomely mounting each scene, the director has trouble attaining any forward momentum, though he achieves some powerful moments while trying.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Rotten
The film seems to have been barely directed--the camera setups are relentlessly banal.
Chicago Reader
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