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‘A film studded with glowing moments of humanity’: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser reviewed in 1975
In an original Monthly Film Bulletin review of Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, critic Tom Milne argued that its protagonist has much to teach us about ‘the freakish systems on which civilisation is founded’.
By Tom Milne
‘A film studded with glowing moments of humanity’: The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser reviewed in 1975