Woyzeck (1979 film)

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Woyzeck

Woyzeck DVD cover
Directed by Werner Herzog
Produced by Werner Herzog
Written by Werner Herzog
Georg Büchner (play)
Starring Klaus Kinski
Eva Mattes
Wolfgang Reichmann
Willy Semmelrogge
Cinematography Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Editing by Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Release date(s) August 24, 1979 USA
Running time 82 min.
Country Flag of West Germany West Germany
Language German
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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.

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.

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.

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Films directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) • Woyzeck (1979) • Fitzcarraldo (1982) • Cobra Verde (1987)
Retrospective: My Best Fiend (1999)


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Films directed by Werner Herzog


1960s
Herakles (1962) • Game in the Sand (1964) • Last Words (1967) • The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) • Signs of Life (1968) • The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
1970s
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) • Handicapped Future (1971) • Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) • Fata Morgana (1971) • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) • Heart of Glass (1976) • No One Will Play with Me (1976) • How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) • Stroszek (1977) • La Soufrière (1977) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) • Woyzeck (1979)
1980s
Huie's Sermon (1980) • God's Angry Man (1980) • Fitzcarraldo (1982) • Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) • The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) • Cobra Verde (1987) • The French as seen by... (1988) • Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
1990s
Film Lesson 1-4 (1990) • Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990) • Jag Mandir (1991) • Scream of Stone (1991) • Lessons of Darkness (1992) • Bells from the Deep (1993) • The Transformation of the World Into Music (1994) • Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) • Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) • The Lord and the Laden (1999) • My Best Fiend (1999)
2000s
Wings of Hope (2000) • Invincible (2001) • Pilgrimage (2001) • Ten Minutes Older (2002) • Wheel of Time (2003) • The White Diamond (2004) • Grizzly Man (2005) • The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) • Rescue Dawn (2007) • Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
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