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"Every Man for Himself and God Against All" is the literal translation of the original German title of Herzog's 1974 take on the story of a boy found in a Nuremberg square in 1828 with a note explaining he'd been held captive in a dungeon his entire life.

Few films could live up to such a billing – this surpasses it: a compassionate, traumatic masterpiece, every frame amazing.