Product Details

• Actors: Lajos Kovacs, Peter Haumann, Alekszandr Porohovscsikov
• Directors: Janos Szasz
• Format: Black & White, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: Hungarian (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Bunyik Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000MKXF0U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,671 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Woyzeck" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Georg Buechner’s world-renowned play of oppression and dehumanization and has been magnificently captured in this stark update by Hungarian director Janos Szasz. Set in modern-day Budapest, the story follows the wretched Woyzeck as he ekes out a meager existence as a lowly worker in a railyard. In a striking performance by Lajos Kovacs (Wings of Desire), Woyzeck is an unkempt outcast who earns extra money by running errands for a bullying army captain and acting as a guinea pig for a local doctor. When his wife begins an affair with a policeman, Woyzeck experiences one humiliation too many and snaps. Using genuine black and white film stock, cinematographer Tibor Mathe exploits the rich blacks and graded grays for maximum atmosphere turning a dark, bleak tale into visual poetry

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best films ever made, February 3, 2001

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This review is from: Woyzeck [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although it might seem like an exaggeration, but in my opinion this Hungarian version of Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck" is one of the ten best films ever made. It is comparable to such a films as "Citizen Kane". János Szász hasn't tried to make a film which is only a cinema version of Büchner's play. He just uses the atmosphere and creates a whole new setting for the film. Woyzeck (Lajos Kovács) works as a railroad employee, surrounded by a surrealistic environment. An impressive film in brilliant black-and-white pictures, containing discouraging metaphors. The suggestive decelerated style of narration leads the spectators to a somber end of the road, the place of a final humiliation. In contrast to Klaus Kinski (BRD 1979, director: Werner Herzog) Lajos Kovács plays the part of Woyzeck not less superb, but a lot more gloomy.