Werner Herzog Film from 1974 about feral child Kaspar Hauser.
Tropes used in The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser include:
- Bilingual Bonus: The actual German title is a little more blunt: Every Man for Himself, and God Against All (Jeder für Sich und Gott Gegen Alle).
- Downer Ending: Hauser's murdered, probably by his real family.
- The Full Name Adventures
- Gorgeous Period Dress: In a Ballroom scene.
- Non-Actor Vehicle: Stars Bruno S., a street musician.
- Parental Abandonment: Thank God!
- Wild Child: Kaspar Hauser was raised in an environment that completely cut him off from human contact. He also shows signs of having some sort of neurological illness.
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