Enigma di Kaspar Hauser, L' (1974)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Director/Scenario/Screenplay: Werner Herzog – Director of photography: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein – Film editor: Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus – Production design: Henning von Gierke – Costume: Gisela Storch – Sound: Haymo Henry Heyder – Music: Florian Fricke (Popol Vuh), Mozart, Pachelbel, Orlando di Lasso, Albinoni - Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion – Country: Germany – Running time: 110’
Cast: Bruno S. (Kaspar Hauser), Walter Ladengast (Daumer), Brigitte Mira (Käthe), Hans Musäus (Unknown Man), Willi Semmelrogge (Circus Director), Michael Kroecher (Lord Stanhope), Henry van Lyck (Cavalry Captain), Enno Patalas (Reverendo Fuhrmann), Elis Pilgrim (Pastor), Wolker Prechtl (Hiltel the Prison Guard), Gloria Doer (Frau Hiltel), Helmut Döring (Little King)
The film:
“The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, real drama of the language, is a story of continuous revelations, visions, dreams, nightmares and, above all, short-circuits of the perception. The story is inspired by the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, the ‘wild boy’ found one day of 1828 in the square of the city of N. with a prayer book in his hand and a letter addressed to the chief of the horse guards. […] Through the observation he will have to learn the language of the social man and adapt it, he will have to get over his stilted discrepancies, to understand and sometimes to follow the most dangerous situations, to cover, as a funambulist, the uncertain path of the confrontation between himself and the rest of the world that is moving non-stop around him.”
[Grazia Paganelli (curated by), Signs of Life. Tribute to Werner Herzog, Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Torino; Il Castoro, Milano 2008, p. 84]
The film restoration:
The preservation of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser was conducted by Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and it was based on the original 35 mm negatives conserved by Werner Herzog Film Archive.
The preservation of the film is part of a project to valorize the works by Werner Herzog, including the homage Signs of life. Tribute to Werner Herzog organized by Museo Nazionale del Cinema in 2008.
The event showed the complete retrospective, the photography exhibition, a concert and a workshop and it was realized together with Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, the Scuola Holden, the Teatro Regio of Torino, the Werner Herzog Film and the German Film.
The preservation was carried out in 2007 at the laboratories ARRI and Geyer.
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