Thursday, December 17, 2015

December 17 - The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Today’s motion picture is a biography with scenes that happen on December 17. Watch and enjoy this film tonight.  

THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER                   

A boy is kept locked in a room by himself with no human contact except for a man in a top hat and overcoat who feeds him. One day the man takes him out of his cell and leaves him in Nuremburg. The former prisoner, whose name is Kaspar Hauser is an object of curiosity and is exhibited in a circus until he is taken in by Professor Daumer who teaches him to read and about music. Then he is attacked by the man in the overcoat. The second attack is a stabbing that causes Kaspar’s death on December 17, 1833. [1:40:19 - 1:46:01]

Producer - Werner Herzog
       
Director - Werner Herzog

Screenwriter - Werner Herzog

Runtime – 1 hour 50 minutes

Released – November 11, 1974

Starring –

Bruno Schleinstein as Kaspar Hauser
Walter Ladengast as Professor Daumer
Brigitte Mira as Kathe, Servant
Reinhard Hauff as Farmer
Herbert Fritsch as Mayor
Florian Fricke as M. Florian
Henry van Lyck as Calvary Captain
Willy Semmelrogge as Circus director
Michael Kroecher as Lord Stanhope
Hans Musäus as Unknown Man
Gloria Doer as Frau Hiltel
Volker Prechtel as Hiltel the prison guard
Wilhelm Bayer as Taunting Farmboy
Johannes Buzalski as Police Officer
Helmut Döring as Little King
Enno Patalas as Pastor Fuhrmann
Clemens Scheitz as Registrar
Alfred Edel as Logic Professor
Andi Gottwald as Young Mozart
Kidlat Tahimik as Hombrecito 

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.




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