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Powerful and dispassionate adaptation of Buchner's play. Woyzeck, strikingly played by Kinski, is a simple impoverished army private used for pseudo-scientific experiments and haunted by nightmares. The love he bears for his wife holds him together but even this is threatened.
Adapted from Buchner’s 1836 play, this is a distanced, spare and dispassionate account of Woyzeck’s descent into nightmares and tragedy. Filmed in only 27 shots, the c... more >
Adapted from Buchner’s 1836 play, this is a distanced, spare and dispassionate account of Woyzeck’s descent into nightmares and tragedy. Filmed in only 27 shots, the camera gives the actors space in which to play out their lives, relationships and struggles. Kinski embodies the title role utterly, as Woyzeck finds himself increasingly antagonised by society and its failings of rational thought, companionship and love. Even the landscape is complicit in his impotent turmoil, and his brutal assault on Marie becomes inevitable. More troubling than this savage act of a goaded beast is the unruffled ending, where police and undertakers peer at the corpse and discuss how good it is to get a ‘beautiful murder, a real murder’, before calmly strolling out of shot, returning to a rational, scientific world where passions can be explained by diet. < less
