The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.

本片呈现阿尔班·伯格（Alban Berg）20世纪震撼之作《沃采克》（Wozzeck），由男中音 Peter Mattei 担纲同名主角，音乐总监 Yannick Nézet-Séguin 掌舵乐队，女高音 Elza van den Heever 饰演饱受折磨的玛丽（Marie），并请来突破性视觉艺术家兼导演 William Kentridge 以末世废墟为背景，打造一场大胆前卫的全新舞台演绎。

沃切克（克劳斯·金斯基 Klaus Kinski 饰）是一个名不见经传的小小士兵，既没有强壮结实的身体，也没有深谋远虑的头脑，只能说他是千千万万名士兵中最不起眼的那一个。然而，上天派给了沃切克一位名为马格瑞斯（埃娃·马特斯 Eva Mattes 饰）女人，马格瑞斯和沃切克情 投意合，两人很快就走到了一起，不仅如此，马格瑞斯的腹中还怀上了沃切克的孩子。 沃切克的情感经历遭到了队长的无情嘲讽，后者认为未婚生子是违反了人伦纲纪的不道德的行为。之后，沃切克发现马格瑞斯背叛了他，投向了别的男人的怀抱，巨大的压力之下，沃切克的精神渐渐走到了濒临崩溃的边缘。在一次激烈的冲突之中，沃切克杀死了马格瑞斯。