Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand

Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

With Raimund Harmstorf, Michèle Mercier, Klausjürgen Wussow, Silvia Reize and Hans Holt

During the time of the Peasants' Wars, the free knight Götz von Berlichingen gets into all kinds of private and political entanglements when he defends the Bishop of Bamberg. He is declared an enemy of the empire and ostracized as a robber. Insurgent peasants, of whom he becomes the leader, also betray him by attacking a town against the condition that no violence be used.