Woyzeck

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.

6.607

82 min

Cast

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

Dieter Augustin

as Marktschreier

Irm Hermann

as Margret

Wolfgang Bächler

as Jew

Rosemarie Heinikel

Herbert Fux

as Unteroffizier

Thomas Mettke

Maria Mettke

Director

Werner Herzog