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 of them 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.
Klaus Kinski
as Friedrich Johann Franz Woyzeck
Eva Mattes
as Marie
Wolfgang Reichmann
as Captain
Willy Semmelrogge
as Doctor
Josef Bierbichler
as Drum Major
Paul Burian
as Andres
Volker Prechtel
as Handwerksbursche
Dieter Augustin
as Marktschreier
Irm Hermann
as Margret
Wolfgang Bächler
as Jew
Rosemarie Heinikel
as
Herbert Fux
as Unteroffizier
