Scheduled premiere: 9 May 2025
In 1821 a barber from Leipzig, named Johann Christian Woyzeck, murdered his girlfriend with multiple knife stabs. Despite knowing that Woyzeck was being tormented by hallucinations and memory loss, the city court decided he was fit to stand trial. The murder was premeditated and he was fully aware of his acts. Thus, he was sentenced to death and his execution appeared in the news. An article about the event inspired Georg Büchner to write Woyzeck, but he couldn’t finish his work before typhoid fever took his life.
In director Bertalan Bagó’s work, the unstable Woyzeck is pushed by soceital pressures, humiliation and hopelessness to commit the murder. The director presents the story as a crime drama that aims to find the main character’s motivations.
Director: Bertalan Bagó
