Fandor
Shout! Factory
Cohen Media
Philo
CineverseThe 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.
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser inspired David Lynch’s The Elephant Man, Lars von Trier’s The Idiots and Yorgos Lanthimos’s recent Poor Things; these film-makers responded to the rich dramatic ... Herzog used Schleinstein again in the 1977…
In an original Monthly Film Bulletin review of Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, critic Tom Milne argued that its protagonist has much to teach us about ‘the freakish systems on which civilisation is founded’.The two main…
Film Reviews. A-Z Archive.The director's distaste for traditional dramatic structures (a view he shared with other German New Wave directors) means that the film has turgid stretches, but this flaw is largely overwhelmed by compositions…
