
109 minutes
11/1/1974
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

Bruno S.
as Kaspar Hauser

Walter Ladengast
as Professor Daumer

Brigitte Mira
as Haushälterin Käthe

Willy Semmelrogge
as Ringmaster

Kidlat Tahimik
as Hombrecito, the Indian

Hans Musäus
as Unknown Man

Michael Kroecher
as Lord Stanhope

Henry van Lyck
as Calvary Captain
Enno Patalas
as Pastor Fuhrmann
Volker Elis Pilgrim
as Pastor #2

Volker Prechtel
as Hiltel, the prison guard
Gloria Doer
as Frau Hiltel
Helmut Döring
as Little King
Andi Gottwald
as young Mozart

Herbert Achternbusch
as country boy #1
Wolfgang Bauer
as country boy #2
Walter Steiner
as country boy #3

Clemens Scheitz
as Registrar

Johannes Buzalski
as Police Officer
Willy Meyer-Fürst
as Doctor

Florian Fricke
as Florian
Alfred Edel
as Logic Professor
Franz Brumbach
as bear showman

Herbert Fritsch
as Mayor
Wilhelm Bayer
as employee of the captain
Peter Gebhart
as man who finds Kaspar
Otto Heinzle
as old priest
Dorothea Kraft
as little girl
Dr. Walter Pflaum
as Doctor #2
Dr. Heinz Niemöller
as Doctor #3
Peter-Udo Schönborn
as crier
Markus Weller
as Julius

Reinhard Hauff
as Bauer - role was cut