7.5
Breathless
1960
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
November 1, 19741h 49mDE
7.3
369 votes
Overview
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.
Director
Werner HerzogWriter
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Status
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Original Language
German
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Production Companies
ZDFWerner Herzog Filmproduktion
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CinemaSerf
7.0Right - despite the fact that this is based on an actual man and actual events, it is pretty aptly titled. Werner Herzog takes a bit of a punt with his chronology of the life of Kaspar Hauser (a strong performance from Bruno S.) but there are very few definites here except for the fact that we know (or come to know) that he had spent most of his childhood chained to a bed in a cellar with his only human contact coming from a man clad in black who fed and watered him daily. Then he released him, barely mobile or able to speak, into 1820s Nuremberg armed only with the clothes he stood up in and…
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Wuchak
6.0**_The real-life story of the mysterious Kaspar Hauser put to film by Werner Herzog_** A young man shows up in the square of a town in Bavaria in 1828 (Bruno S.), but he can only speak a few words and can hardly walk. The note in his hand was from someone who cared for him near the Bavarian border since he was an infant. It stated that he had never been let outside the house and wanted to be a cavalryman, like his father. The teenager finds himself becoming a ‘hit’ and stirs up much attention. “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” (1974) was Herzog’s follow-up to his acclaimed “Aguirre, the Wr…
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