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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

7.3(394)19741h 49m3

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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Released
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Language
German
  • liberation
  • nuremberg, germany
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Release dates

  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical20 Nov 1975
  • ChinaCN

    • PremiereBeijing International Film Festival17 Apr 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical121 Nov 1974
  • ItalyIT

    • TheatricalNR1 Nov 1975
  • SwedenSE

    • Theatrical1124 Jan 1976

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser was released on 1 November 1974.

Audience reviews

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    CinemaSerf

    1/28/2024

    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 (or come to know) that he had spent most of his childhood chained to a bed in a cellar with his only human contact comin…

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    Wuchak

    11/4/2024

    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 border since he was an infant. It stated that he had never been let outside the house and wanted to be a cavalryman, like his…

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