Movie · 1979
Woyzeck
“Shame, vengeance, terror... love.”
Released 25 May 1979 82 min Drama More from 1979 → IMDb ↗ · Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗
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 job 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.
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How old were they?
Willy Semmelrogge
as Doctor
Klaus Kinski
as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
Herbert Fux
as Unteroffizier
Wolfgang Reichmann
as Captain
Dieter Augustin
as Marktschreier
Volker Prechtel
as Handwerksbursche
Irm Hermann
as Margret
Rosemarie Heinikel
Josef Bierbichler
as Drum Major
Eva Mattes
as Marie
Paul Burian
as Andres
Wolfgang Bächler
as Jew
Thomas Mettke
Maria Mettke
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The numbers
32years between the oldest and youngest billed
56Willy Semmelrogge — oldest on the call sheet
24Eva Mattes — youngest billed
41average age of the credited cast