''Wozzeck'' is a 1947 German drama film directed by Georg C. Klaren and starring Kurt Meisel,

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, 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

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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.

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* 1947 films 1940s German-language films East German films Films directed by Georg C. Klaren German films based on plays Films set in the 1830s 1940s historical drama films German historical drama films Films shot at Althoff Studios Films shot at Babelsberg Studios German black-and-white films Works based on Woyzeck 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub