The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

Synopsis

In 1828 Nuremberg, an enigmatic young man who spent his entire life chained alone in a dark underground dungeon knowing only a wooden toy horse is released into the town square with a mysterious letter, struggling with childlike purity against the pompous social conventions, religion, and bourgeois logic of 19th-century society. Werner Herzog's Cannes Grand Prix-winning philosophical masterpiece starring real-life street musician Bruno S.