Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas

Arnaud des Pallières20132h 2mAction, War, Period Piece

Why we chose it

Mads Mikkelsen is magnetic as a sixteenth-century horse dealer who has been cheated and goes looking for justice under the law. When he can’t find it, he takes it for himself, and as the common people rally behind him, his cold revenge grows from a grudge into an uprising.

Synopsis

Michael Kohlhaas is a prosperous horse dealer in sixteenth-century France, and a happily married man, when a baron takes two of his horses on the grounds that he has no papers for them. Soon afterwards a guard beats his wife, and she dies of her injuries. Kohlhaas turns to the courts for justice and gets nowhere, so he stops asking, and what began as a personal vendetta becomes a mass revolt against the authorities.

Information

Director
Cast
Also known as
Michael Kohlhaas
Production year
2013
Decade
2010s
Duration
2h 2m
Genre
ActionWarPeriod Piece
Festivals & Awards
Language
French, German, Occitan
Country
France, Germany
Subtitles
Greek, Polish
Age rating
12+

Cannes Film Festival

Official Selection

2013

César Awards

Best Original Music

2014

What others say

3.3
15 reviews

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