• © Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek
  • © Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek
  • © Werner Herzog Film / Deutsche Kinemathek
  • Saturday, Nov 11, 2023

    1 PM (110 mins)
    BAMPFA

    SOLD OUT

A limited number of wheelchair accessible spaces may still be available for this screening. Please contact bampfa@berkeley.edu if you would like a ticket for a wheelchair accessible space.


Special Admission

General: $15

BAMPFA members: $11

UC Berkeley students: $7

UC Berkeley faculty and staff, non-UC Berkeley students, disabled persons, ages 65+ and 18 & under: $12

BAMPFA’s second-feature discount does not apply to these programs.


The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

(Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle)

(Every Man for Himself and God Against All), (The Mystery of Kaspar Hauser)

Werner Herzog
West Germany, 1974
  • In Person
    Werner Herzog

Kaspar Hauser is one of the purest film examples I know of in which an artist of Romantic sensibility puts society to the test and finds it wanting.

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
featuring

Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge,

For many critics, this is still Herzog’s finest film. Bruno S., a nonactor, gives an amazing performance as Kaspar Hauser, who, in the 1820s, suddenly appeared in a small German town, full-grown but seemingly a new-born child, unable to speak and barely able to stand. It is a film that stares straight into the mystery of human existence. “In Herzog the line between fact and fiction is a shifting one. He cares not for accuracy but for effect, for a transcendent ecstasy” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times).

FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Werner Herzog

Cinematographer

  • Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein

Language

  • German
  • with English subtitles

Print Info

  • Color
  • DCP
  • 110 mins

Source

  • American Genre Film Archive

Event Accessibility

If you have any questions about accessibility or require accommodations to participate in this event, please contact us at bampfa@berkeley.edu or call us at (510) 642-1412 (during open hours) with as much advance notice as possible. More information on accessibility services.