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Kaspar Hauser

6.1 139 mins Drama   1993
Director(s): Peter Sehr Gernot Roll

In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held captive in complete isolation in a hiding place from infancy onwards. From this emerges the picture of an intrigue involving high circles of aristocratic society. Five years after his liberation, in December 1833, Kaspar Hauser died as a result of a stab wound inflicted by an unknown perpetrator.

Casts of Kaspar Hauser

André Eisermann

as Kaspar Hauser

Udo Samel

as Daumer

Jeremy Clyde

as Lord Stanhope

Katharina Thalbach

as Comtesse Hochberg

Johannes Silberschneider

as Lehrer Meyer

Peter Lohmeyer

as Leopold von Baden

Dieter Laser

as Ludwig I. von Bayern

Uwe Ochsenknecht

as Ludwig von Baden

Hermann Beyer

as Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach

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