Half of the sixteenth century. Against the background of the Cévennes mountain landscape appears silhouette of Michael Kohlhaas - dealer horses, father and husband, a revolutionary dreaming of equality. One of the most righteous and the most terrible blood heroes of significant pages of history. One of those who could have it all if he had not lost the ground under his feet. The only one who so much wanted to walk the paths of righteousness, that he began to walk over corpses.
"Michael Kohlhaas" Arnaud des Pallières a costume drama filmed based on a romantic novel by Heinrich von Kleist which deals with the law, patterns and revenge. Electrifying, based on the true story is the story of a prosperous horse peddler, who leads a quiet, comfortable and happy life in the bosom of the family. The situation of Kohlhaas is a sudden and radical change if one of the local aristocrats violates the boundaries of its territory, encroaching on them and begins to unlawfully charge fees from people who have them roam. One of the victims of the feudal aristocratic whim becomes the same Kohlhaas, who for the baron also loses two horses. Because his case is not treated seriously in court, the man puts his fate on one card and decides to seek justice alone. Becomes the head of the army of the oppressed and the fit of revenge ravages around, murdering enemies of law and ignites the fire of revolution in a time when the Middle Ages begins to walk away into oblivion in favor of Renaissance values.