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Wozzeck (film)

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Wozzeck
Directed byGeorg C. Klaren
Written by
Starring
CinematographyBruno Mondi
Edited byLena Neumann
Music byHerbert Trantow
Production
company
Distributed bySovexport
Release date
  • 17 December 1947 (1947-12-17)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

Wozzeck is a 1947 German drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and starring Kurt Meisel, Max Eckard, and Helga Zülch.[1] It is based on the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. (The play, which was first performed in 1913, nearly 80 years after Büchner's death, had been originally billed as Wozzeck due to a misreading of Büchner's handwriting.)

The film's sets were designed by Bruno Monden and Hermann Warm. It was shot at Babelsberg and the Althoff Studios in Potsdam.

Plot

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Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices—the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous and full of energy.

Main cast

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References

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  1. ^ Bock & Bergfelder, p. 514.

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
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