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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Werner Herzog |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1975 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Starz / Anchor Bay |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Language, Atmospheric, Biography [feature], Cerebral, Color, Deliberate, Disturbing, Drama, Enigmatic, Feature, Foreign Film - German, Foreign Film [Dub Or Subtitle], German, High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance, Innocence Lost, Movie, Period Film, Psychological Drama, Reflective |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D11567D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 013131156799 |
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Customer Reviews of The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser With "Kaspar," a somber yet engrossing drama accentuated by the lilting strains of Pachelbel's Canon, Herzog found an unusually rich metaphor for man's primitive state. Bruno S., a mental patient taken in by the audacious Teutonic filmmaker, fully embraced the role, refusing even to doff his 19th-century costume at the end of a day's shoot. He plays Kaspar as a perpetually shell-shocked, almost autistic innocent whose strained efforts to communicate and assimilate are thwarted by a profound, perhaps prophetic otherness. The question for Herzog, of course, is whether reason enlightens or imprisons us--an "Enigma" well worth pondering.
Every man for himself...
Every Man For Himself and God Against All aka The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a prime slice of pre-nutter-in-the-jungle Werner Herzog and makes an interesting companion piece to Truffaut's L'Enfant Sauvage/The Wild Child. Where Truffaut used his true story of a foundling more animal than boy as proof of the human soul, Herzog uses the real-life mystery of Hauser as a means of showing that society's accepted way of looking at the world may not necessarily be the most valid - as demonstrated when Hauser's contention that apples are tired is seemingly proved by the inability of his guardian to demonstrate that they are inanimate objects subject to man's will.
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>Thanks as much to a truly alien performance from Bruno S. in the lead role - he really does seem to have suddenly fallen to Earth and not recovered from the shock - as to Herzog's unique mixture of the restrained and the hypnotic in his approach, the end result is one of those films that's definitely greater than the sum of its parts.
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Hooked on Herzog
Saw this film in the late 70's and it hooked me on Werner Herzog movies. Agree with the other reviewers as to its humanism, message etc. This reflects well in the Director's commentary on the DVD since he had to manage Bruno, the "Kasper" character as well as direct him because Bruno had such a damaged life (23 years in public institutions/jail).
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>Want to also recommend the DVD for some of the wonderful and near dreamlike images offered; a field of ripe rye whipped by a swirling wind, a fog-shrouded mountain with weary Irish pilgrims, a temple-covered plain, et. al. Beautiful as they are, it is the genius of W. Herzog to introduce these short hallucinatory segments as a way to bring to the viewer the sensation of how Kasper perceived a world we see as so familiar, but was all so new to him.
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