The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

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.

Directed by Werner Herzog

Top cast

Bruno S.

Kaspar Hauser

Walter Ladengast

Professor Daumer

Brigitte Mira

Haushälterin Käthe

Willy Semmelrogge

Ringmaster

Kidlat Tahimik

Hombrecito, the Indian

Hans Musäus

Unknown Man

Michael Kroecher

Lord Stanhope

Henry van Lyck

Calvary Captain

E

Enno Patalas

Pastor Fuhrmann

V

Volker Elis Pilgrim

Pastor #2

Volker Prechtel

Hiltel, the prison guard

G

Gloria Doer

Frau Hiltel

H

Helmut Döring

Little King

A

Andi Gottwald

young Mozart

Herbert Achternbusch

country boy #1

W

Wolfgang Bauer

country boy #2

W

Walter Steiner

country boy #3

Clemens Scheitz

Registrar

Johannes Buzalski

Police Officer

W

Willy Meyer-Fürst

Doctor

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