Wozzeck (film)

Wozzeck
Directed by	Georg C. Klaren
Written by	Georg Büchner (play Woyzeck) Georg C. Klaren
Starring	Kurt Meisel Helga Zülch Max Eckard
Cinematography	Bruno Mondi
Edited by	Lena Neumann
Music by	Herbert Trantow
Production company	DEFA
Distributed by	Sovexport
Release date	17 December 1947 (1947-12-17)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Wozzeck is a 1947 German drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and starring Kurt Meisel, Max Eckard, and Helga Zülch. 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

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

• Kurt Meisel as Wozzeck
• Helga Zülch as Marie
• Paul Henckels as Arzt
• Arno Paulsen as Hauptmann
• Richard Häussler as Tambour-Major
• Max Eckard as Georg Büchner
• Willi Rose as Andres
• Claire Reigbert as Margret
• Alfred Balthoff as Handwerksbursche
• Wolfgang Kühne as Ausrufer
• Otto Matthies as Handwerksbursche
• Karl Hellmer as Trödler
• Elsa Wagner as Großmutter
• Rotraut Richter as Käthe
• Max Drahn as Idiot
• Erich Lothar as Bub Christian
• Leo Sloma as Wirt
• Valy Arnheim as Gerichtspräsident

Bibliography

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

External links

• Wozzeck at IMDb