The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 22m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes86%
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
207 audience votes
Key crew
- Werner HerzogScreenplay
- Werner HerzogDirector
Cast
- Klaus KinskiFriedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
- Eva MattesMarie
- Wolfgang ReichmannCaptain
- Willy SemmelroggeDoctor
- Josef BierbichlerDrum Major
- Paul BurianAndres
- Volker PrechtelHandwerksbursche
- Dieter AugustinMarktschreier
- Irm HermannMargret
- Wolfgang BächlerJew
- Rosemarie HeinikelCast
- Herbert FuxUnteroffizier
Stills
Themes
becoming an adultchild herochildhood traumaleipzig, germanyrevengemurderkids