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Videocassette, running time 110 Minutes. By Werner Herzog. West Germany, Cinema Five Limited, 1975. (Distributed in the United States by RCA Video.)

Every Man for Himself and God against All: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is Werner Herzog's film about Kaspar Hauser, the famous foundling. The film presents Hauser's story as the passage of an absolute outsider through 19th-century German culture. At the center of the film are the ethical questions raised by Hauser's treatment at the hands of representatives of German society. Near the beginning of the film Hauser, who can speak only one phrase and can barely walk, is found by town officials, who, not knowing what else to do with him, make careful notes on his physical characteristics. For . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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