Overview

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.

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Cast

André Eisermann

Kaspar Hauser

Udo Samel

Daumer

Jeremy Clyde

Lord Stanhope

Katharina Thalbach

Comtesse Hochberg

Johannes Silberschneider

Lehrer Meyer

Peter Lohmeyer

Leopold von Baden

Dieter Laser

Ludwig I. von Bayern

Uwe Ochsenknecht

Ludwig von Baden

Hermann Beyer

Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach