The film follows Kaspar Hauser (Bruno S.),who lived the first seventeen years of his life chained in a tiny cellar with only a toy horse to occupy his time, devoid of all human contact except for a man who wears a black overcoat and top hat who feeds him.

• ZDF
• Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
• Bruno S.
• Walter Ladengast
• Brigitte Mira
• Willy Semmelrogge
• Kidlat Tahimik
• Hans Musäus
• Michael Kroecher
• Henry van Lyck