Kaspar Hauser – Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (1974)

Kaspar Hauser – Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira, Willy Semmelrogge. A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note.

“Even if this film had failed on the level of character or narrative (which it doesnu0026#39;t), I would still love this movie for its incredible imagery. The memory/dream sequences are haunting and will never leave my head. The opening shot of a field, long blades grass bowing under the wind to the music of Pachelbel, is extraordinary. And of course thereu0026#39;s the performance of Bruno S, the most intensely hypnotic and genuine performance you will ever see. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut my favorite scene is of the impresario and the dwarf king and his kingdom. This is a true Herzog moment — bizarre but somehow still a moment of striking epiphany — the dwarf a parallel, isolated soul to Kasperu0026#39;s own isolated, lonely soul. The extremity and weirdness of moments like these seem commonplace and everyday in a Herzog film, and therefore somehow commonplace and everyday even in our own lives.”