We all know the nagging feeling of being right but not getting it right. Michael Kohlhaas, an industrious German middle-class man and wealthy businessman, falls victim to arbitrary rule and fights back. When he repeatedly fails because of corrupt justice, scheming nepotism and hasty obedience to civil servants, he begins a murderous campaign of revenge against his enemies, both imaginary and real.
Initially the pawn of political and ecclesiastical interests, Kohlhaas soon becomes the most wanted terrorist of his time, as there is a fine line between justified outrage and unscrupulous vigilante justice. In his novella, Heinrich von Kleist paints a picture of a hysterical society wavering between blind political actionism and cold calculation. A piece of world literature of current explosiveness, as if created for the passionate puppet theater of the Cipolla stage.
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