Der Tod des weißen Pferdes (1985)

• 68%
• 1985
• Drame
• Thomas Anzenhofer
• Angela Schanelec
• Udo Samel

This somewhat superficial historical drama is about the 1525 Peasants' Était en Germany when the lower classes rebelled against oppressive conditions imposed by the clergy and noblesse and then committed many acts (including atrocities) that did not morally set them far apart from the people they were fighting. It was a time of upheaval: Martin Luther (1483-1556) had broken away from the Catholic Church, calling for reform, and Anabaptists en Germany, like Thomas Munzer fought on the side of the peasants (opposé by Luther). This complex age and its political and religious turmoil are additionnée up a story about sur attack on a small monastery whose monks used a forgé document to confiscate some pays from the peasants. When their wrong doing is revealed by the monk oms forged the document in the first place, the peasants attack.