Michael Kohlhaas (2013)
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| Original title | Michael Kohlhaas |
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| Country of production | Germany , France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Arnaud des Pallières |
| script |
Christelle Berthevas Arnaud des Pallières |
| production | Serge Lalou |
| music | Martin Wheeler |
| camera | Jeanne Lapoirie |
| cut |
Sandie Bompar Arnaud des Pallières |
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Michael Kohlhaas is a German-French drama from 2013 by the director Arnaud des Pallières based on the novel Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist , for which the historical person Hans Kohlhase is considered a role model. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2013 .
action
During the 16th century the horse dealer Michael Kohlhaas is on his way to a market. But on his way home he has to cross a border. The baron's administrator requires a pass without any legal basis (which does not even exist). Since Kohlhaas does not have this, he promises to get this pass from the authorities, but has to leave two of his horses behind as a deposit. On the way home he gets his horses back in a miserable condition. In addition, his servant Cesar is seriously injured by the administrator's dogs.
Kohlhaas does not want to endure this injustice and takes legal action against it. However, he is not awarded justice and his wife Judith dies trying to get justice from the princess. Kohlhaas opts for vigilante justice and spreads fear and horror in the country with his entourage.
Ultimately, the princess promises him a fair trial if he and his entourage stop killing. He decides to do so, receives justice in the lawsuit for his horses, but also experiences “justice” for the murders he committed and triggered in vigilante justice.
criticism
"An impressive film about the discrepancy between law and justice and a successful film adaptation of a work with unbroken social relevance."
“An inward-facing western that discovers the pioneering frontier in the middle of douce France and in the world of cloak-and-epee epics. But it is also an author's film desperate for its own rigorism, which peers at the costume cinema audience through the mask of a visual rigor trained in Bergman and Bresson. "
“Impressive exterior shots and overwhelming soundscape: Michael Kohlhaas is a film that is perhaps best enjoyed sitting in the front row, so that you can lose yourself completely in the audiovisual space he has constructed. Viewed from a few rows further back, Des Pallières Adaption seems a bit undecided. On the one hand, he consistently approaches his material in a cinematic manner, on the other hand, he repeatedly indicates an interest in the legal issues related to the submission, without bringing them to a point of their own. "
“Arnaud des Pallières stages the desperate struggle for law and justice as an archaic poetic western in the rugged mountains of the Cevennes. Irresistible: Mads Mikkelsen as a hapless man of honor. "
“The story told by Aron Lehmann's film 'Kohlhaas or The Proportionality of Means' is by no means the serious classic film adaptation that the restorative mood in the German film industry seems to scream for. […] The French-German wide-screen opus 'Michael Kohlhaas' by Arnaud des Pallières, presented in Cannes […], on the other hand, relies on the sensually powerful experience. Shot with a rough whistling wind in the autumnal chiaroscuro of the bare Cevennes, the film sketches a historical image of society in the conflict between nature and civilization. The gap between law and justice is negotiated; Kohlhaas (Mads Mikkelsen) insists on the sense of justice of a free individual gifted with a Protestant freedom of conscience. "
“Practically little is spoken in the film. […] Instead of language, the images carry the film, the landscape, the camera work, which repeatedly reminds one of Rembrandt, and above all the sound. Hasty, intermittent breathing noises from the off accompany the return of the fatally injured Lisbeth Kohlhaas. [...] The costumes are beautiful in their accentuated sparseness and of great importance for the seductive power of the film. They too are part of this strange vision of a pan-European early history. [...] What Pallières' film risks in terms of vagueness in historical and geographic terms, it has to make up for in sensuality in its arte povera aesthetic. "
“This is an extremely brittle Kohlhaas film adaptation. Despite the impressive pictures. It's the overall atmosphere of the film. We wait in the cinema seat and wait for something to happen, for the avenger to finally say something on the screen. And to be honest: the actor Mads Mikkelsen is too good-looking for a Michael Kohlhaas. It's distracting."
Awards
- Nominated for the Palme d'Or best film at the Cannes International Film Festival 2013
- Golden Iris 2013 at the Brussels Film Festival
- "Particularly valuable" rating from the German film and media rating
- Awarded a César 2014 for the best film music and the best sound
Broadcast on television
The film was broadcast on November 27, 2016 by the Franco-German TV channel arte .
Other films
- Michael Kohlhaas - the rebel
- Horsemen on scorched earth
- Kohlhaas or the proportionality of the means
Web links
- Michael Kohlhaas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Kohlhaas on the LOOKSfilm website
- Michael Kohlhaas at Polyband
- Michael Kohlhaas at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Michael Kohlhaas. ( PDF ; 226 kB) In: German Film and Media Assessment . Retrieved September 11, 2013 .
- ↑ Andreas Kilb : The pain is deeper than the anger. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 15, 2013, accessed September 16, 2013 .
- ^ Till Kadritzke: Review. In: critic.de. May 24, 2013, accessed September 18, 2013 .
- ↑ Anna Grillet: Review. In: KulturPort.De. September 11, 2013, accessed October 3, 2013 .
- ↑ On hollow horses. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 9, 2013, accessed October 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Michael Kohlhaas, the original European. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 11, 2013, accessed October 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Michael Kohlhaas. (No longer available online.) In: Radio Bremen . September 12, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 6, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Palmarès du Brussels Film Festival 2013. ( PDF ; 525 kB) (No longer available online.) In: brusselsfilmfestival.be. June 26, 2013, p. 2 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved September 11, 2013 (French). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
