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Director: Werner Herzog
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From Time Out Film Guide
An anarchist's morality play; the tale of an army private tormented in private by visions of apocalypse, in public by the unbearable weight of social and sexual oppression; he flips. Herzog's harsh vision of human suffering beyond despair, adapted from the Georg Büchner play, casts Woyzeck as a proletarian King Lear (Kinski, extraordinary once again), but there are echoes, too, of Beckett and Brecht. A sharp parable on social oppression and dormant rebellion, made with a dispassionate, deliberate formality that some may find hard to take.Author: CA
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- benjamin ross said...
- Posted on Mar 18 2009 17:13 oh my god! this is amazing! klaus kinski gives one of the greatest performances i have ever seen. u gotta see this, there is nothing else like it
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- Shannon Holcomb said...
- Posted on Jan 16 2009 03:49 Fascinating.
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Cast & crew
Director: Werner Herzog
Producer: Werner Herzog
Cast: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge, Josef Bierbichler full cast
Duration: 81 mins
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