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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser( 1974)

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Overview

The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.), 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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Bruno S.

      Kaspar Hauser

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      Walter Ladengast

      Professor Daumer

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      Brigitte Mira

      Haushälterin Käthe

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      Willy Semmelrogge

      Ringmaster

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      Kidlat Tahimik

      Hombrecito, the Indian

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      Hans Musäus

      Unknown Man

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      Michael Kroecher

      Lord Stanhope

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      Henry van Lyck

      Calvary Captain

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      Enno Patalas

      Pastor Fuhrmann

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      Volker Elis Pilgrim

      Pastor #2

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      Volker Prechtel

      Hiltel, the prison guard

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      Gloria Doer

      Frau Hiltel

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      Helmut Döring

      Little King

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      Andi Gottwald

      young Mozart

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      Herbert Achternbusch

      country boy #1

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      Wolfgang Bauer

      country boy #2

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      Walter Steiner

      country boy #3

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      Clemens Scheitz

      Registrar

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      Johannes Buzalski

      Police Officer

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      Willy Meyer-Fürst

      Doctor

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      Florian Fricke

      Florian

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      Alfred Edel

      Logic Professor

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      Franz Brumbach

      bear showman

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      Herbert Fritsch

      Mayor

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      Wilhelm Bayer

      employee of the captain

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      Peter Gebhart

      man who finds Kaspar

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      Otto Heinzle

      old priest

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      Dorothea Kraft

      little girl

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      Dr. Walter Pflaum

      Doctor #2

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      Dr. Heinz Niemöller

      Doctor #3

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      Peter-Udo Schönborn

      crier

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      Markus Weller

      Julius

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      Reinhard Hauff

      Bauer - role was cut

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      Philippe Mareuil

      Doublure voix française de Michael Kroecher

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    A review by CinemaSerf

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    Written by CinemaSerf on Sun Jan 28 2024
    Right - 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 a...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

    -

    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • liberation
    • nuremberg, germany
    • curious