The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Werner Herzog, 1974
I saw this absolutely beautiful film in the good old days on a CRT screen and smoked some good stuff while washing it down with long swigs of ice-cold beer. I have to thank the legendary WH for the screenplay and direction of this masterful work, and not just him but also the main actor, Bruno Schleinstein (German actor, painter, and musician), a charming son of a ... ahem, as I read on Wiki, "Illegitimate son of a prostitute, mistreated as a child, he spent much of his childhood in orphanages, reform schools, and prisons.
An excellent painter and self-taught musician, skilled at playing the accordion and piano, he was forced to work in factories as a forklift operator, while on the weekends he performed as a street musician playing ballads in gardens and courtyards."
Dedicated with affection to @[tia] & co... and that’s it.
I saw this absolutely beautiful film in the good old days on a CRT screen and smoked some good stuff while washing it down with long swigs of ice-cold beer. I have to thank the legendary WH for the screenplay and direction of this masterful work, and not just him but also the main actor, Bruno Schleinstein (German actor, painter, and musician), a charming son of a ... ahem, as I read on Wiki, "Illegitimate son of a prostitute, mistreated as a child, he spent much of his childhood in orphanages, reform schools, and prisons.
An excellent painter and self-taught musician, skilled at playing the accordion and piano, he was forced to work in factories as a forklift operator, while on the weekends he performed as a street musician playing ballads in gardens and courtyards."
Dedicated with affection to @[tia] & co... and that’s it.
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