The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

7.3/ 10

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1974

Release Year

109 min

Runtime

Drama
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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.

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Keywords

liberation
nuremberg, germany
curious
síndrome de kaspar hauser

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Reviews(2)

6.5avg rating
CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

January 28, 2024

7
7/10

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

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Wuchak

Wuchak

November 4, 2024

6
6/10

**_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 borde

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