Nuremberg (Germany), 1828. Kaspar Hauser (Bruno Schleinstein) is a young man who has spent most of his life locked in a dark basement, isolated from the rest of humanity. Hardly taken up, not speak, only mumbles some words, and only he can write his name.
Humanist and poetic anthropological treatise is one of the most recognized works of their once great author.
Inspired by a real person, which was known at the time as "the orphan of Europe", the film from a premise similar to that of The Wild Child (L'enfant Sauvage , 1969) by François Truffaut, although their treatment is closer to The Elephant Man (The Elephant Man , 1980) by David Lynch.
The film becomes a truly exceptional singing, which he ties with The Freaks (Freaks , 1932) by Tod Browning in his attempt to exalt the unique and different a social context as homogenized as impoverished. That vision of the extraordinary fascination, linked to the German filmmaker directly with the tenets of Romanticism. Movement that must be assigned their outstanding work.
As happened with the John Merrick of the work of Lynch, the Kaspar Hauser in Herzog, despite its flaws and shortcomings (or perhaps because of them ) is much closer to the primordial essence of man than any of the modern men around him. Still inhabit the status naturalis Rousseau, makes it a naive and uncorrupted to the society that feels the same degree of attraction of rejection. Their existence is both a hope and a danger, and we know that our civilization is moving more towards the latter for fear that faith to the former.
Bruno plays in a strange poignancy to our protagonist. With him learn to walk again, to express ourselves, to read and question the rules of the world in which we live. Herzog provided a thorough and realistically impossible to integrate into a society for which there is more than a curious mix science and circus.
Note also that the story appears appropriately decorated with works by Pachelbel, Albinoni, and Mozart, so joined the Herzog beautiful pictorial composition, makes the viewing of this work in a profoundly stimulating.
Rating: very good .
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