Kaspar Hauser (Cinemax Saturday at 8 p.m.)...

Kaspar Hauser (Cinemax Saturday at 8 p.m.) German filmmaker Peter Sehr argues persuasively that the young man who turned up on a Nuremberg street in 1828 after 12 years in a castle dungeon was in fact the Crown Prince of Baden, the victim of ruthless palace intrigue involving the power struggles between duchies of Baden and Bavaria, intensified by Napoleon’s eagerness to put his relatives on every throne. At once a political thriller, an outrageous satire on corrupt royal shenanigans and an ironic fable about a profoundly ill-fated young man of innocence and brilliance who is given back his life only to have it taken away again (played superbly by Andre Eisermann), “Kaspar Hauser” (1993) is a tour de force of wit, originality and poignancy.