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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Man on Horseback | image = ManOnHorseback1969Poster.jpg | caption = German poster | director = Volker Schlöndorff | producer = {{ubl|Jerry Bick|Rob Houwer}} | writer = {{ubl|Edward Bond|Volker Schlöndorff|Clement Biddle Wood}} | screenplay = | story = | based_on = {{based on|''Michael Kohlhaas''|Heinrich von Kleist}} | starring = David Warner | music = Stanley Myers | cinematography = Willy Kurant | editing = Claus von Boro | studio = {{ubl|Houwer-Film|Oceanic Filmproduktion GmbH}} | distributor = Columbia Film-Verleih | released = {{Film date|1969|4|11|West Germany|df=y}} | runtime = 99 minutes | country = West Germany | language = {{ubl|English|German}} }}
'''''Man on Horseback''''' ({{langx|de|'''Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell'''|link=no}}) is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel ''Michael Kohlhaas'' by Heinrich von Kleist. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/2508/year/1969.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Man on Horseback |access-date=8 April 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}</ref> Another film based on the book was released at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
==Cast== {{cast listing| * David Warner as Michael Kohlhaas * Anna Karina as Elisabeth Kohlhaas * Thomas Holtzmann as Martin Luther * Michael Gothard as John * Kurt Meisel as Kanzler * Anton Diffring as Kurfürst * Gregor von Rezzori as Kunz * Peter Weiss<!--Don't link to Peter Weiss, different person, filmmaker not actor. Not even German WP has an article on him--> as Richter (as Peter Weiß) * Anita Pallenberg as Katrina, Marketenderin * Relja Bašić as Nagel (as Relia Basic) * Inigo Jackson as Wenzel von Tronka * Václav Lohniský as Herse * Anthony May as Peter * Tim Ray as Tony * Ivan Palúch as Stern (as Ivan Palluch) * Emanuel Schmied as Verwalter * Erich Aberle as Bürgermeister * Zdeněk Kryzánek as 1. Jurist * Karel Krisanek as 2. Jurist * Keith Richards as Soldier }}
==See also== * ''The Jack Bull'' (1999) * ''Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas'' (2013)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0064662|title=Man on Horseback}}
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