THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER [1974][Region1 - DVD]

1974, 109 min, kieli, saksa, teksti: englanti, EI SUOMEA, aluekoodi 1, vaatii aluekoodivapaan toistolaitteen, ohjaus Werner Herzog. Englanninkieliset kannet.

Kaspar Hauserin tapaus (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) on Werner Herzogin ohjaama länsisaksalainen draamaelokuva vuodelta 1974. Se oli Herzogin kansainvälinen läpimurtoelokuva.

Elokuva perustuu Kaspar Hauserin tapaukseen. Hän ilmestyi 1828 Nürnbergiin ja väitti, että häntä oli pidetty vankina lapsuudesta saakka. Elokuva voitti Cannesin elokuvajuhlien toiseksi tärkeimmän Grand Prix -palkinnon 1975.

Director Werner Herzog (AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD; FITZCARRALDO) approaches the true story of famous wild child Kaspar Hauser as a metaphor, continuing his cinematic investigations into human consciousness and civilization. In 1828, Kaspar was found in the town square of Nuremberg, Germany, hardly able to speak or walk, having been kept in solitary confinement by unknown forces for his entire life. As Kaspar is taken in by the locals, his integration into society and the curiosity posed by his mysterious and possibly dangerous origins start to pull at the carefully kept seams of civilization. In Kaspar, Herzog creates an idealized and unspoiled perspective through which to see both the ridiculous and the sublime aspects of humanity and nature as well as the interaction between the two that results in civilization. Breathtaking and eerie images of natural landscapes are juxtaposed with the intricate artifice of Kaspar's indoctrination into the language, thought, religion, and culture of 19th-century Germany. Bruno S. (Stroszek in Herzog's film of the same name) gives an astonishing performance as the haunting man-child Kaspar, stumbling, literally and figuratively, through his newfound environment, giving human and emotional life to the enigma of Kaspar Hauser.

Bruno S.: Kaspar Hauser
Walter Ladengast: Georg Friedrich Daumer