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.
Acting
Bruno S.—a real street musician with no training, utterly transcendent.
Direction
Herzog's hypnotic patience makes every frame feel like a living painting.
Cinematography
Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein's natural light mastery—fields never looked this spiritual.
Director
Werner Herzog
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
Volker Prechtel
Hiltel, the prison guard
Herbert Achternbusch
country boy #1
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