A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
October 25, 1984
Original Title:
Wodzek
Alternate Titles:
Wodzeck
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 82
Franz Woyzeck, the protagonist of Georg Büchner's unfinished drama is incorporated in this adaption of a classic. The contemporary Franz Wodzeck lives in Germany's Ruhr industrial region. Wodzeck meanders back and forth between the monotony of working each day in a car factory and returning each evening to the cheerless desolation of the factory dormitory. Once his girlfriend, Maleen, snubs him for his boss, Wodzeck's personal and social frustrations escalate into a vista of emotions: he runs amok and bloodily stubs Maleen to death. After he has killed his one sole love Wodzeck resigns himself to his fate. A hollow shell of a man is admitted to a psychiatric asylum. He feels no more anxiety, no more desire. He simply exists. FBW Prädikat: "wertvoll".
Art Direction:
Tobias Siemsen
Josef Sanktjohanser
Assistant Camera:
Jan Betke
Director:
Oliver Herbrich
Director of Photography:
Ludolph Weyer
Editor:
Romy Schumann
Original Music Composer:
Andreas Hofner
Still Photographer:
Petra Vonhausen
Writer:
Oliver Herbrich
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