Michael kohlhaas film mads mikkelsen biography
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013) - IMDb!
Michael kohlhaas film mads mikkelsen biography
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas
- French director Arnaud des Pallières presented his medieval western with Mads Mikkelsen as a virtuous righter-of-wrongs in competition in Cannes.
With one selection for six films, it cannot be said that French director Arnaud des Pallières is used to being in competition in Cannes.
The 66th Cannes Film Festival welcomes him with a tale of valorous revenge borrowed from German author Heinrich Von Kleist, who published his short story in 1811. Michael Kohlhaas [+see also:
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Offhandedly dismissed when he asks for compensation and the victim of bloody retaliation, Kohlhaas takes up arms and embarks with a handful of men on a crusade against the lords, taking the law into his own hands for as long as it takes to obtain justice.
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