Götz von Berlichingen

“In the last days of the free knights, Götz of the Iron Hand — a rough, honest, loyal man who serves only God, the Emperor and his own conscience — wages his private feuds against the Bishop of Bamberg and the cities. His boyhood friend Weislingen, won back to him and then lost again to the court and the beautiful, dangerous Adelheid, betrays him; besieged, cheated, imprisoned, forced to lead the rebel peasants, Götz dies in a prison garden crying for freedom.”