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7.1/10   275 votes
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Director:
Peter Sehr
Writer:
Peter Sehr (writer)
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Release Date:
7 June 1996 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History | Mystery more
Tagline:
Verbrechen am Seelenleben eines Menschen
Plot:
Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
(6 articles)
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Herzog sleeps easily. more (3 total)

Cast

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André Eisermann ... Kaspar Hauser
Udo Samel ... Daumer
Jeremy Clyde ... Lord Stanhope
Katharina Thalbach ... Comtesse Hochberg
Cécile Paoli ... Stefanie Von Baden
Hansa Czypionka ... Hennenhofer
Hermann Beyer ... Feuerbach
Dieter Mann ... Baron Wedel

Johannes Silberschneider ... Tutor Meyer
Peter Lohmeyer ... Leopold von Baden
Tilo Nest ... Carl von Baden
Dieter Laser ... Ludwig I. von Bayern

Uwe Ochsenknecht ... Ludwig van Baden
Anja Schiller ... Sophie von Baden
Gerd Lohmeyer ... Blochmann
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Runtime:
139 min | Germany:175 min (2 parts)
Country:
Germany | Austria | Sweden
Language:
German
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
UK:18 | Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Czech Republic more
Company:
Arte more

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11 out of 33 people found the following review useful.
Herzog sleeps easily., 12 February 2001
1/10
Author: Alice Liddel (-darragh@excite.com) from dublin, ireland

Despite its title, this film isn't really about Kaspar Hauser. Like the underground prison into which he is thrown for years, kaspar is a black hole into which his story is sucked. The film is really about two connected themes, both reflecting German anxieties about its past. kaspar's treatment exposes the Enlightenment society that destroys him, just as his seemingly primitive characteristics (grunting etc.) undermine its insistence on artificiality, manners and wit.

Secondly, a film set in Nuremberg, with a hero twice wrenched from his home and incarcerated, and who has his diary burnt, is clearly 'explaining' a more notorious past, that of the Nazis, showing how Germany would rather couch uncomfortable history in vague mythology.

A comparison between this tricksy, paranoid, exhausting film, and Herzog's restrained enigmatic version of the same story would be instructive. The latter is a masterpiece.

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