There's a lot of Kaspar Hauser material in German museums and libraries. And if I understand correctly (I'm not German nor do I speak German nor have I ever been to Germany), the Kaspar Hauser story was widely known inside Germany even before this film gave it a few more legs.
Hence my question: are German reactions and American reactions to the Kaspar Hauser story quite different?
To make a comparison, I'd actually have to know how Americans react to his story in the first place. ;)
What I read myself about this case, makes me think that he could have never spent so much time in an isolated cell or something similar and that he just kept playing this role as he was addicted to the attention he got for being "special" (similar like another dude from Bavaria, Andreas Grassl, the "Piano Man" ). But I guess for most of my countrymen, the romantic image of him, not only being a captive for so long, but even a prince, is still very much common. This conception is at least matching the romantic era well in which Kaspar Hauser appeared.