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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Original title: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
  • 1974
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 50m
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7.7/10
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Bruno S. in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.
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A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

  • Director
    • Werner Herzog
  • Writers
    • Werner Herzog
    • Jakob Wassermann
  • Stars
    • Bruno S.
    • Walter Ladengast
    • Brigitte Mira
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.7/10
    18K
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    • Director
      • Werner Herzog
    • Writers
      • Werner Herzog
      • Jakob Wassermann
    • Stars
      • Bruno S.
      • Walter Ladengast
      • Brigitte Mira
    • 76User reviews
    • 48Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 4 nominations

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    Bruno S.
    Bruno S.
    • Kaspar Hauser
    Walter Ladengast
    • Professor Daumer
    Brigitte Mira
    Brigitte Mira
    • Kathe, Servant
    Willy Semmelrogge
    • Circus director
    Michael Kroecher
    • Lord Stanhope
    Hans Musäus
    • Unknown Man
    Henry van Lyck
    Henry van Lyck
    • Cavalry Captain
    Gloria Doer
    • Frau Hiltel
    Volker Prechtel
    Volker Prechtel
    • Hiltel the prison guard
    Herbert Achternbusch
    Herbert Achternbusch
    • Bavarian Chicken Hypnotizer
    Wolfgang Bauer
    Wilhelm Bayer
    • Taunting Farmboy
    Franz Brumbach
    Johannes Buzalski
    Johannes Buzalski
    Helmut Döring
    Helmut Döring
    • Little King
    Alfred Edel
    • Professor
    Florian Fricke
    • Florian
    Heribert Fritsch
    • Director
      • Werner Herzog
    • Writers
      • Werner Herzog
      • Jakob Wassermann(uncredited)
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    • Trivia
      Werner Herzog's said at his Rogue Film School, that the following scenes were shot with a Super-8mm camera: a) The opening scene on the river. b) The montage of landscape shots early in the film. c) Right after the man in black teaches Kaspar how to walk. d) The Caucasus pyramid sequence. e) The caravan in the desert with the old man tasting the sand. Herzog talked about how, for some of the landscape shots early in the film, he mounted a telephoto lens on the end of wide angle lens onto his Super 8 camera. This distorted the edges of the images and created a white/halo effect around the frame. On the DVD audio commentary of this film, he mentions how for the Caucasus pyramid sequence he projected the image onto a screen and then re-photographed the image with a 35mm camera at a different frame rate from the projected speed. He also used this technique with the caravan in the desert sequence.
    • Goofs
      In a brief scene we see a stork eating a frog with its legs tagged (ringed), but bird ringing didn't start until the end of the nineteenth century, decades after the life of Kaspar Hauser.
    • Quotes

      Opening caption: Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

    • Crazy credits
      Opening credits prologue: One Sunday in 1828 a ragged boy was found abandoned in the town of N. He could hardly walk and spoke but one sentence.

      Later, he told of being locked in a dark cellar from birth. He had never seen another human being, a tree, a house before.

      To this day no one knows where he came from - or who set him free.

      Don't you hear that horrible screaming all around you? That screaming men call silence?
    • Connections
      Featured in I Am My Films (1978)
    • Soundtracks
      Canon in D major
      Composed by Johann Pachelbel

    User reviews76

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    10/10
    My favorite Herzog Film
    Even if this film had failed on the level of character or narrative (which it doesn't), I would still love this movie for its incredible imagery. The memory/dream sequences are haunting and will never leave my head. The opening shot of a field, long blades grass bowing under the wind to the music of Pachelbel, is extraordinary. And of course there's the performance of Bruno S, the most intensely hypnotic and genuine performance you will ever see.

    But my favorite scene is of the impresario and the dwarf king and his kingdom. This is a true Herzog moment -- bizarre but somehow still a moment of striking epiphany -- the dwarf a parallel, isolated soul to Kasper's own isolated, lonely soul. The extremity and weirdness of moments like these seem commonplace and everyday in a Herzog film, and therefore somehow commonplace and everyday even in our own lives.
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    • enicholson
    • Aug 3, 2001

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    • Release date
      • November 1, 1974 (West Germany)
    • Country of origin
      • West Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Every Man for Himself and God Against All
    • Filming locations
      • Croagh Patrick, Westport, Mayo, Ireland(archive footage)
    • Production companies
      • Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
      • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)
      • Filmverlag der Autoren
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $2,874
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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