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7 June 1996 (USA) moreTagline:
Verbrechen am Seelenleben eines MenschenPlot:
Kaspar Hauser is the son of the duke of Baden. At the age of one he was swapped by another baby that has been killed right after the change... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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7 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Swados' Kasper Hauser Opens at The Flea 2/28 (From BroadwayWorld.com. 28 February 2009, 8:34 AM, PST)
The Flea Theater Presents Elizabeth Swados' Kasper Hauser
(From BroadwayWorld.com. 14 January 2009, 2:42 PM, PST)
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Herzog sleeps easily. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | André Eisermann | ... | Kaspar Hauser |
| Udo Samel | ... | Daumer |
| Jeremy Clyde | ... | Lord Stanhope |
| Katharina Thalbach | ... | Comtesse Hochberg |
| Cécile Paoli | ... | Stefanie Von Baden |
| Hansa Czypionka | ... | Hennenhofer |
| Hermann Beyer | ... | Feuerbach |
| Dieter Mann | ... | Baron Wedel |
 | Johannes Silberschneider | ... | Tutor Meyer |
| Peter Lohmeyer | ... | Leopold von Baden |
| Tilo Nest | ... | Carl von Baden |
| Dieter Laser | ... | Ludwig I. von Bayern |
 | Uwe Ochsenknecht | ... | Ludwig van Baden |
| Anja Schiller | ... | Sophie von Baden |
| Gerd Lohmeyer | ... | Blochmann |
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Despite its title, this film isn't really about Kaspar Hauser. Like the underground prison into which he is thrown for years, kaspar is a black hole into which his story is sucked. The film is really about two connected themes, both reflecting German anxieties about its past. kaspar's treatment exposes the Enlightenment society that destroys him, just as his seemingly primitive characteristics (grunting etc.) undermine its insistence on artificiality, manners and wit.
Secondly, a film set in Nuremberg, with a hero twice wrenched from his home and incarcerated, and who has his diary burnt, is clearly 'explaining' a more notorious past, that of the Nazis, showing how Germany would rather couch uncomfortable history in vague mythology.
A comparison between this tricksy, paranoid, exhausting film, and Herzog's restrained enigmatic version of the same story would be instructive. The latter is a masterpiece.