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Woyzeck [ˈvɔʏtsɛk] is a 1979 German drama film written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes. It is an adaptation of the unfinished play Woyzeck by German dramatist Georg Büchner.
Mar 18, 2016 · Most of Klaus Kinski’s performances are among the most memorable in cinema, but he surpasses himself in this ‘diptych’, playing the legendary bloodsucker with fragility and an unbearable erotic timidity; his Woyzeck, the ‘worm-that-turned’, may be marginalised in the world he lives in, but Kinski agitates his narrative with a restless ...
- Darragh O’Donoghue
Kinski's interpretation of Woyzeck is perfect. He shows every emotion through his face, his voice, his form as whole, at the exact time called for in the script. The oppression of the forces being thrust upon Woyzeck is palpable as each scene unfolds.
Woyzeck tells a simple tale: Early 19th-century German soldier Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) slowly goes mad and kills his faithless lover Marie (Eva Mattes), possibly an ex-prostitute, who is having a sexual relationship with another military man (Josef Bierbichler).
- Dan Schneider
Jan 27, 2018 · The difference is that Woyzeck shows Kinski as one of the oppressed, rather than an oppressor – a working-class soldier who is forced into committing a crazed action by...
Oct 10, 2012 · While the women of Nosferatu (1972) and Woyzeck (1972) provide a much needed refuge for the protagonist, they are unable to offer lasting salvation. While the Kinski persona does take a step towards sustainable happiness between these films, it is not until Fitzcarraldo (1982) that Kinski finds
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Woyzeck: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge. Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.
