![]() A caravan loses its way crossing the Sahara. ![]() It is only on his deathbed, following his stabbing by an unknown assailant, that he tells the tale, illustrated by what looks like rough, flickering found footage. Käthe reminds him that Daumer believes that stories should be told from start to finish, so Kaspar gives up the attempt. He proposes to tell her a story about the desert, but admits he doesn’t know the ending. In a key scene, the mysterious foundling Kaspar (Bruno S.) is sitting with Käthe (Brigitte Mira), housekeeper to his tutor Professor Daumer (Walter Ladengast). No unifying answer can be achieved in a world where only God knows the answers and where humans can only cling to their own provisional, partial guesses. It is, as the English title suggests, an unanswered question the German title actually means ‘every man for himself and God against all’, but still the connotations of scattered disunity support the sense of enigma. In reality, Kaspar Hauser is an unfinished story – indeed, a story about unfinished stories. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is a story with a beginning and an end or at least, being based on a historical case, it feels as if it ought to have a clear beginning and end. ![]() SPOILER WARNING The following notes give away some of the plot.
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