The read
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 89% of the 1,162 1970s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes91%
Critics rate it 15 points higher than audiences do.
389 audience votes
Key crew
- Werner HerzogDirector
- Werner HerzogScreenplay
- Popol VuhOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bruno S.Kaspar Hauser
- Walter LadengastProfessor Daumer
- Brigitte MiraHaushälterin Käthe
- Willy SemmelroggeRingmaster
- Kidlat TahimikHombrecito, the Indian
- Hans MusäusUnknown Man
- Michael KroecherLord Stanhope
- Henry van LyckCalvary Captain
- Enno PatalasPastor Fuhrmann
- Volker Elis PilgrimPastor #2
- Volker PrechtelHiltel, the prison guard
- Gloria DoerFrau Hiltel
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Themes
liberationnuremberg, germanycurious
The Best Movies of 1974
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is #14 of 58
