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.
Woyzeck has generally received positive reviews.
Review of Woyzeck (1979)
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Review of Woyzeck (1979)
By Vincent Canby (762) for New York Times (5,786) on 08 May 2005
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By Moira Sullivan (52) for FilmFestivals.com (20) on 22 Apr 2003
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Woyzeck was released in 1979 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 96 reviews, giving Woyzeck (1979) an average rating of 71%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 78%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 70%.
With a score of 71%, Woyzeck is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1979, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 1979 with similar scores include films like The Jerk, Time After Time and The Rose.
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