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Synopsis: Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: New Yorker Films
  5 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
NOT RATED
Year:
1974
110 min
608 Views


That doesn't matter now.

Tell us the story,

even if it's only the beginning.

I see a caravan...

...coming through the desert...

...across the sands.

And this caravan...

...is led by an old Berber tribes man.

And this old man is blind.

Now the caravan stops...

...because some believe

they are lost...

...and because they see

mountains ahead of them.

They look at their compass,

but it's no use.

Then their blind leader

picks up a handful of sand...

...and tastes it,

as though it were food.

My sons, the blind man says,

you are wrong.

Those are not mountains you see...

...it is only your imagination.

We must continue northward.

And they follow

the old man's advice...

...and finally reach

the City in the North.

And that's where the story begins.

But how the story goes after

they reach the city, I don't know.

Thank you all for listening to me.

I'm tired now.

There we have it - the left lobe

of the liver is greatly enlarged.

That is an unusual finding

indeed, and worth recording.

Please take this down:

Left liver lobe

enlarged and extends...

...enlarged, yes.

...and extends to below

the left arch of the diaphragm.

Doctor, look!

...arch of the diaphragm.

Look at the brain,

its shape is rather unusual.

Yes, a remarkable abnormality.

Overdevelopment of the cerebrum.

Oh, I agree, yes!

There is also a

deformity of the cerebrum.

The left hemisphere is too small.

That explains a great deal!

This should be recorded.

Take this down:

Abnormal cerebrum...

...definitely overdeveloped.

Deformity of left

cerebral hemisphere...

...which does not sufficiently

cover the cerebellum.

Coachman!

Today is a day to remember.

Be so good as to take

my hat home with you.

I'm going to walk home.

What a wonderful, what a

precise report this will make!

Deformities discovered in

Kaspar Hauser's brain and liver!

Finally we have got an

explanation for this strange man...

...and no one would never

find nothing like this.

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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