A soldier unravels in 94 minutes of pure operatic dread. Don't expect tap numbers.
Franz Woyzeck, a lowly soldier stationed in a mid-nineteenth century provincial German town, is the father of an illegitimate child by his mistress Marie.
Acting
Grundheber's Wozzeck: a vocal performance of total psychological collapse.
Direction
Chéreau strips the opera bare—no spectacle, just human wreckage.
Cinematography
Tight, suffocating close-ups that refuse to let you look away.
Director
Patrice Chéreau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Berg's 1922 opera was banned in Nazi Germany as 'degenerate art'—its working-class protagonist and atonal score were politically radioactive.
Chéreau filmed this at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994, capturing live performance energy that studio opera recordings usually sterilize.
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