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"Woyzeck"
1978
Directed by Werner Herzog
Woyzeck
represents one of the most extraordinary events in the history of literature. Written in
1836, just before its author's death at the age of 23, Buchner's drama anticipates by some
50 to 100 years the literary movements of the 20th century. Herzog's version of Woyzeck
is a film without shadows. This caustic tragedy of an ordinary man's headlong plunge into
madness and murder is filmed with a terrible clarity, punctuated by bursts of unexpected
lyricism. In the title role, Klaus Kinski delivers a harrowing and unforgettable
performance, as stark and unsentimental as the razor with which the hero carries out his
chilling destiny. With Eva Mattes. German with English subtitles.
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