# The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

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**Original title**: *Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle*
**Runtime**: 109 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Werner Herzog
**Written by**: Werner Herzog
**Starring**: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Kidlat Tahimik, Hans Musäus

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Kaspar Hauser meets a found-footage diary. A feral teenager emerges into 19th-century Nuremberg after 17 years underground. The outsider’s collision with society becomes a deadpan autopsy of civilization, carried by Bruno S.’s blank stare.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, cerebral, outsider, slow-burn

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