
In May 1828, a feral boy aged around 16 was found in Nuremberg. Kaspar Hauser, as he is called, can only speak a few indistinct words and knows nothing about his origins or family. The film depicts the - presumed - circumstances under which Hauser was held captive in complete isolation in a hiding place from infancy onwards. From this emerges the picture of an intrigue involving high circles of aristocratic society. Five years after his liberation, in December 1833, Kaspar Hauser died as a result of a stab wound inflicted by an unknown perpetrator.

as Kaspar Hauser

as Daumer

as Lord Stanhope

as Comtesse Hochberg

as Lehrer Meyer

as Leopold von Baden

as Ludwig I. von Bayern

as Ludwig von Baden

as Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach