Foreign Film: Woyzeck
(German with English subtitles)
Tuesday, October 6 | 5:00 pm
Student Union Theatre
In Werner Herzog’s brilliant adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, Klaus Kinski delivers a wild and stunning performance in a role only he could play. Franz Woyzeck (Kinski) is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he cannot control. Abused and tortured, both physically and psychologically by commanding officers, doctors and his unfaithful wife, Marie (Eva Mattes), Woyzeck struggles to hold on to his humanity and his fragile sanity. In the film’s shattering climax, he is finally driven over the brink into madness and murder. (Rated R. 80 minutes.)
Tickets:
Free Admission
Co-presented by the Department of Foreign Languages, as part of the Madness in Art, Literature and Society series.
