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A poor soldier Woyzeck (Klaus Kinski) is tormented in private by visions of the apocalypse, and tormented in public by the unbearable weight of social pressure. He descends into madness and murder. A morality play with more than a nod toward Becket and Brecht, this adaptation of Georg Buchner's play once again has Kinski in astonishing form and Herzog showing a stark, harsh reality that exposes hidden rebellion and suffering in the common man.
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