La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser
The Legend of Kaspar Hauser
Davide Manuli – I 2012 – 90 min.
Sc: Davide Manuli – C: Tarek Ben Abdallah – E: Rosella Mocci – SD: Francesco Liotard – M: Vitalic – With Vincent Gallo, Claudia Gerini , Silvia Calderoni, u.a. – P: Shooting Hope Productions, Blue Film
35mm/SW, – Italian, English
In this absurdist retelling of the legend of Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious boy who appeared in the streets of Nuremberg in 1828 and could hardly talk, by director Davide Manuli, the tracksuit- and headphone-wearing Kaspar Hauser washes up on the beach of an almost uninhabited island, where he is found and received as the messiah by The Sheriff (Gallo) who is also a DJ. The Duchess, who rules the tiny community, feels threatened by the blond boy and sends The Pusher (also Gallo) to fix things. The brief chapters, which all consist of a single, long take and feature minimal, surreal dialogues, tell Hauser’s story. All in black-and-white against the sober background of deserted beaches and villages, supported by Vitalic's pumping rhythms. – IFF Rotterdam
Davide Manuli, born in 1967 in Milan, Italy. He is director and actor. As a director, he was awarded the international critics' prize at the Locarno film festival for his film Beket (2008).
Films (selection): Inaduti-Inuit! 2006 – Beket 2008 – La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser 2011