Woyzeck (1979 film)

Infobox Film
name = Woyzeck


caption = Woyzeck DVD cover
director = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
writer = Werner Herzog
Georg Büchner (play)
narrator =
starring = Klaus Kinski
Eva Mattes
Wolfgang Reichmann
Willy Semmelrogge
music =
cinematography = Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
distributor = New Yorker Films (USA)
released = August 24, 1979 USA
runtime = 82 min.
country = West Germany
language = German
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:55551
imdb_id = 0080149

"Woyzeck" is a 1979 film by the German director Werner Herzog that stars Klaus Kinski and Eva Mattes. It is an adaptation of the play by German dramatist Georg Büchner.

Plot

The film's plot essentially follows that of Büchner's "Woyzeck". As critics disagree upon the order Buechner intended the surviving fragments of his work to be played, it is difficult to assert whether Herzog stuck to the play. He kept to the overall plot, but of necessity, his was an interpretation of how best the scenes should be pieced together to portray it.

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

The film

Filming for "Woyzeck" in Telč, Czechoslovakia, began just five days after work on Herzog's "Nosferatu the Vampyre" had ended. Herzog used the same exhausted crew and star. The scenes were accomplished mostly in a single take, which allowed the filming to be completed in only 18 days; it was edited in just four.

Herzog had planned to use Bruno S. in the title role, but he then changed his mind, considering Kinski more suitable for the part. To compensate Bruno for this disappointment, Herzog wrote the leading role in the film "Stroszek" especially for him.

Awards

At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, Eva Mattes won the award for Best Supporting Actress for her part in this film. Herzog was nominated for the Golden Palm. In 1981, the film won the Silver Guild Film Award from the Guild of German Art House Cinemas. [cite web
title = Awards for Woyzeck
publisher =Internet Movie Database
url =http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080149/awards
accessdate =2007-12-25 ]

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