Film Festival “Summer of Classics - 2024”
Director: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog
Cast:
Kaspar Bruno S.
Daumer Walter Ladengast
Käthe Brigitte Mira
Drama, Germany, 1974, 18+, 110 min
When he was 18 years old, Kaspar Hauser was abandoned by an unknown person on the streets of Nürnberg. Prior to that time, he had been held prisoner in a dungeon, tied to the floor with a belt and secretly fed by people he never got to know. Kaspar was not even aware that there were other humans besides himself. He didn’t know what was a tree, a house, or language. He has no objection to this state of affairs – it’s the only one he knows after all. He considered his stopped posture to be his natural anatomy.
What happens to a man when first confronted with the world and unable to make himself understood or to adjust to it – and the world he is thrust into is the severe, intolerant period of the early 19th Century? Society passes this “Man” around like some kind of peculiar, tropical animal, something to put on display at county fairs. The world continues the maltreatment his captors had begun.
At the end some unknown person shoots Kaspar dead. The mystery of his birth and death have never been solved. Was he a Prince of the Royal House of Baden, or even a son of Napoleon? The riddle of this man once occupied the whole of Europe and has never been solved.
Summer of Classics - 2024
The "Summer of Classics - 2024" is making a comeback at Cinema Akil with 17 featured titles from around the world, giving audiences the opportunity to watch some classics on the big screen. Among these, three are German films, with two presented in partnership between the Goethe-Institut Gulf Region and Cinema Akil:
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser by Werner Herzog. Both world film classics from Germany are celebrating their 50th anniversary. Additionally, the festival will commemorate the 40th anniversary of another outstanding German film, "Paris, Texas" by Wim Wenders.
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