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Man on Horseback

Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell

West Germany

1969

99 Min
Color
1.37:1
English, German
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DIR Volker Schlöndorff

EXEC Jerry Bick, Elliott Kastner

PROD Jerry Bick, Rob Houwer

SCR Volker Schlöndorff, Edward Bond, Heinrich von Kleist, Clement Biddle Wood

DP Willy Kurant

CAST David Warner, Anna Karina, Thomas Holtzmann, Michael Gothard, Kurt Meisel, Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards

ED Claus von Boro

PROD DES Rudolf Kovac, Ivan Vanícek

MUSIC Stanley Myers, Peter Sandloff

Cannes (In competition)

Synopsis

It’s medieval times. Kohlhaas merchants with horses. When going to the local fair to sell his horses, is forced by a noble to leave him part of the merchandise as payment for traveling through his land, promising to give it back when the fair is over. When he returns, the horses are almost dead, and the man refuse to respond, so Kohlhass begins to fight unsuccesfuly against the injustice. —IMDb

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Volker Schlöndorff

Volker Schlöndorff (born 31 March 1939 in Wiesbaden, Germany) is a Berlin-based German filmmaker.

He won an Oscar as well as the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival for The Tin Drum (1979), the film version of the novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Günter Grass.

Schlöndorff has adapted many literary works for his movies, including some critically well-received US productions, but he is also engaged in post-war German politics. He served as the chief executive for the UFA studio in Babelsberg. Volker Schlöndorff also teaches film and literature at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.

He was married to fellow film director Margarethe von Trotta from 1971 to 1991. —Wikipedia 

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