Eva Mattes, Josef Bierbichler, Klaus Kinski

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Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Release Date: August 24, 1979

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  • October 1, 2009
    The combined raw acting talent of Kinski and the brilliance (and notably different directing style for this film) of Herzog combined makes this film great. It?s the script that makes it stand out as being fantastic!
  • October 26, 2008
    Ridiculed by his superior officer, restricted to a diet of nothing but peas by his doctor, a confused, nervous and undernourished soldier is finally unhinged by his wife's apparent infidelity. Although not exactly a barrel of laughs, this wasn't as gruelling as I'd expected. Comp...( read more)rised of long, static takes and clocking in at a mercifully short 80 or so minutes, the film was supposedly shot in 18 days and edited in another 4, immediately after Herzog, Kinski and crew wrapped on Nosferatu. Kinski is truly amazing in this, and perhaps because of the not inconsiderable novelty value of watching him play a pitiful wretch rather than a loathsome egomaniac, this is my favourite of his performances I've seen to date. Doubtless the film has much to say to intellectuals about the human condition; unfortunately, I couldn't find an intellectual to enlighten me, so I've had to draw my own conclusions: Go easy on those greens, and never trust a drum major!
  • January 30, 2008
    Good flick but not more than that, it significantly lacks of rhythm and in a way of imagination.
  • November 13, 2006
    A classic play is made into a very good movie by the great Werner Herzog. A basic but fundamentally solid adaptation of the stage play, in which Klaus Kinski delivers a monster of a performance as the title character.
  • November 28, 2009
    Sigo sin ser fan del cine aleman y esta cinta tiene todas las caracteristicas que me chocan. En general, pienso yo, que tienen un ritmo muy lento y muy poca estrategia visual, dejandonos una escena desde solo un plano... y uno de los chistes del cine es que pone al espectador en ...( read more)un lugar privilegiado: puede ser testigo de lo que quiera, desde donde quiera y puede tener informacion que el personaje no sabe. Esta version de Woyzeck, gran clasico del teatro y una de las mejores historias de amor contadas (junto con Otelo), no llego a ser lo que se espera de una gran pieza teatral, sino una pelicula aburrida que sorprende por su unica buena actuacion: Klaus Kinski.
  • November 1, 2009
    I don't know about all of you, but I actually found this film really funny. I liked it a lot! I can understand why it wouldn't be for everyone, but I was just so into what was going on that I didn't care.
  • January 27, 2009
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  • December 27, 2008
    if this is the version of alban berg's opera wozzeck then yes i have seen it - all i remember is someone yelling 'das blud! das blud!' i don't want to see this again.
  • November 25, 2008
    Intense & powerful, Kinski rules
  • October 10, 2008
    Peut-être pas la plus grande réussite de Herzog au niveau de la réalisation, mais le jeu surhumain de Klaus Kinski vient tout arranger. Sa performance fait littéralement le film. Il atteint un niveau d'intensité et d'investissement sans précédent, allant même jusqu'à exiger d'êtr...( read more)e réellement battu pour se glisser plus facilement dans la peau de son personnage.

    L'histoire est simple: Franz Woyzeck, un soldat au bord de l'aliénation mentale, subit chaque jour les humiliations de ses supérieurs, de son médecin et de sa femme adultère. Se sentant étroitement lié avec la nature qui lui souffle de poignarder les importuns, il est torturé jusqu'aux limites de la folie et décide finalement d'agir. Une oeuvre qui vaut la peine d'être vue pour la performance de Kinski et pour certaines scènes d'une grande beauté.

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