Vorblick Filmseminar Werner Herzog: "Kaspar Hauser – Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle"

As a preview to the 22nd Mannheim Film Seminar, which will focus on Werner Herzog from January 17 to 19:

KASPAR HAUSER - EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL

DEU 1974. D: Werner Herzog. D: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge, Alfred Edel, Enno Patalas. 109 min. FSK: 12

Kaspar Hauser lives in a cellar dungeon, isolated from other people. One day he is taken out and left alone in Nuremberg. A teacher saves him from being gawked at as a freak in the circus, teaches him to read and write, teaches him religion, music and logic.
Werner Herzog tells the story of the enigmatic foundling Kaspar Hauser largely according to the traditions of folklore, and yet penetrates deep into a higher reality of the early 19th century: with this wild man, a natural being breaks into the cultural society shaped by the Enlightenment. Herzog cast the Berlin street musician Bruno S. as the main character, who shapes the film with his very own, unforgettable personality. "While Truffaut [in THE WOLF BOY], despite all the restrictions, was dominated by optimism, Herzog gives no chance to the pedagogical belief in progress. With him, education is carried out as heartless training that leaves the object destroyed. The (aesthetically often beguiling) film provides rich material for discussion." (Jury of the Evangelische Filmarbeit, December 1975).
Herzog also used the film title as the title of his memoirs published in 2022.

The film will be shown as a preview of the 22nd Mannheim Film Seminar. The visit to this film is not included in the participation fee for the film seminar.