Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. CAUTION: Here be spoilers T ransplanting Heinrich von Kleist’s influential novella from Germany to 16th-century France, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas follows the titular horse trader (Mads Mikkelsen) as his rage with a local baron blossoms into a mass peasant revolt. Age of Uprising falls awkwardly into the gap between art film and horse opera, says Robbie Collin 3 Mads Mikkelsen in Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas AGE OF UPRISING: THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL KOHLHAAS is an interesting film about a mini revolution that took place in historical France. The definitive site for Reviews, Trailers, Showtimes, and Tickets Age Of Uprising: The Legend Of Michael Kohlhaas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Noblesse Oblige by Mark Wilshin. T ransplanting Heinrich von Kleist’s influential novella from Germany to 16th-century France, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas follows the titular horse trader (Mads Mikkelsen) as his rage with a local baron blossoms into a mass peasant revolt. Read helpful reviews from our customers. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, 2013.. Given the year of production (2013), it's even easier to think that it would be a cheap cash in, with either hundreds of extras or bad cgi to create some moderately staged battle chaos and tap into some of those sweet medieval fantasy dollars. Beautifully shot, well-acted, and respectful to a fault, Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas is often left inert by its weighty meditations. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas, by Arnaud des Pallieres, is as grounded a version of the story as one is likely to find, hemming close to what appear to be the stylistic and thematic roots of the story. Unpicking the tragic deadlock of a wronged man out for justice, Arnaud des Pallières’ Michael Kohlhaas is a fine tribute to people power and ruthless idealism. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (2013) Critic Reviews. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas (French: Michael Kohlhaas) is a 2013 French-German drama film directed by Arnaud des Pallières based on Heinrich von Kleist's novella Michael Kohlhaas, which again is based on the story of Hans Kohlhase.It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It's often a beautifully shot film, breathtakingly so at times, and it features a typically strong performance from Mads Mikkelsen in the lead role. The pacing is methodical and detached from what we would expect from this type of film, it’s no Braveheart for example. Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas movie reviews & Metacritic score: With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, Mélusine Mayance, … When you start to watch a film with the title Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas you would be forgiven for thinking that an uprising will mean a high level of action, and feature an uprising against a greater power, something like Braveheart perhaps.