Editing Kaspar Hauser (section)

=== Film and television ===
[[Michael Landon]] played Casper Hauser in the episode "The Mystery of Caspar Hauser" of the television series ''[[Telephone Time]]'' in 1956.<ref>{{cite book |title=Der Findling: Kaspar Hauser in der Literatur |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ngaAAAAYAAJ&q=michael+landon |first=Ulrich |last=Struve |year=1992 |page=250 |publisher=Metzler Verlag|isbn = 9783476007865}}</ref>

[[Werner Herzog]]'s 1974 film ''[[The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser]]'' dramatizes Hauser's story. [[Bruno S.]], who played the part of Hauser, was an untrained actor whose childhood was marked by physical abuse and stays in mental institutions; Herzog has remarked that he considers him similar to Hauser.<ref>{{cite web |title=Werner Herzog Walker dialogue with Roger Ebert |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQj3XuRkx-s |website=YouTube |publisher=[[Walker Art Center]] |language=en |format=video |date=April 28, 2020}}</ref> The film's German title is ''Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle'', which Herzog also used as the title of his [[Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir|2022 memoir]]. 

Galician filmmaker Alberto Gracia made an avant-garde version of Hauser's life in ''O quinto evanxeo de Gaspar Hauser'' (2013).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alberto Gracia |url=https://bafici.org/director/alberto-gracia/ |website=BAFICI 25}}</ref>

[[The Legend of Kaspar Hauser]] (Italian: La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser) is a 2012 Italian surreal drama film written and directed by [[Davide Manuli]]. In this modern western-like re-interpretation featuring [[Vincent Gallo]], a music-obsessive Kaspar washes up on a Mediterranean beach, where half a dozen protagonists try to make sense of who he is.