
The film follows Kaspar Hauser, 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.

Kaspar Hauser

Professor Daumer

Haushälterin Käthe

Ringmaster

Hombrecito, the Indian

Unknown Man

Lord Stanhope

Calvary Captain
Pastor Fuhrmann
Pastor #2

Hiltel, the prison guard
Frau Hiltel
Little King
young Mozart

country boy #1
country boy #2
country boy #3

Registrar

Police Officer
Doctor

Florian
Logic Professor
bear showman

Mayor
employee of the captain
man who finds Kaspar
old priest
little girl
Doctor #2
Doctor #3
crier
Julius

Bauer - role was cut