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Michael Kohlhaas

Pallières' latest follows the plight of its eponymous hero (Denmark's Mads Mikkelsen), a happy and prosperous family man and horse trader who suffers an injustice at the hands of an arrogant young baron. Kohlhaas seeks redress legally, only to be rebuffed and threatened.

- John Bleasdale, Cine Vue

Here is a handsomely-made and admirably high-minded revenge movie, set in 16th century France, that paints its world in glowing, vivid colours...

- Andrew Pulver, The Guardian

Mads Mikkelsen is at his most saturnine as a Robin Hood-like rebel of the sixteenth century in Michael Kohlhaas, a film perhaps best described as a historical Western.

- Jonathan Romney, Screen Daily

Director: Arnaud des Pallières
Screenplay: Arnaud des Pallières & Christelle Berthevas, based on the novella by Heinrich von Kleist
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, Delphine Chuillot, Bruno Ganz, Denis Lavant
Production: Serge Lalou / Les Films d'Ici, Looks Filmproduktionen
Genre: Drama

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