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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.
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Bruno S.
Kaspar Hauser
Walter Ladengast
Professor Daumer
Brigitte Mira
Haushälterin Käthe
Willy Semmelrogge
Ringmaster
Kidlat Tahimik
Hombrecito, the Indian
Hans Musäus
Unknown Man
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Rating
7.3/ 10
Release Date
1974-11-01
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
DramaHistory
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User Reviews (2)
CinemaSerf
7/10
•1/28/2024Right - 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 fe...
Wuchak
6/10
•11/4/2024**_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...