Woyzeck (1979)
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Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler, Paul Burian, Volker Prechtel, Dieter Augustin, Irm Hermann
A soldier’s medical experiments for extra pay coincide with worsening mental health and growing distance from Marie.
The story
Franz Woyzeck is a soldier stationed in a provincial German town and the father of an illegitimate child with Marie, his mistress. To supplement his pay, he works for the captain and takes part in medical experiments; one requires him to eat nothing but peas. His mental health deteriorates, and he begins having apocalyptic visions. Marie grows tired of him and turns to a drum major.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Franz Woyzeck, a soldier stationed in a provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child he had with Marie, his mistress. Woyzeck supplements his pay by doing work for the captain and agreeing to take part in medical experiments conducted by the doctor. For one of these experiments, the doctor requires Woyzeck to eat nothing but peas. Woyzeck’s mental health deteriorates, and he begins to experience a series of apocalyptic visions. Marie soon grows tired of Woyzeck and turns to a drum major who, in an ambiguous scene in Marie’s room, probably rapes her. Jealous, Woyzeck confronts the drum major, who beats and humiliates him. Woyzeck then stabs Marie to death near a pond. He throws the knife into it, and while trying to wash off the blood, he hallucinates that he is swimming in Marie’s blood.
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