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Woyzeck (1979)
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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 of them 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.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, dark comedy, social, sad, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
insanity, military, loser, brutality, murder, soldier, obsession, infidelity, adultery, jealousy, humiliation, hearing voices, underdog, american civil war, foreign legion, legion, colonialism, revenge, grownups, child hero, childhood trauma, fighting the system, love affair, society, military life ...
Time:
year 1979, 19th century, turn of the century, 70s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
germany
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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