"Based on an 1820s incident, the film tells of a group of impoverished peasants, suffering under the burdens of crippling taxation and official repression, who attempt, in desperation, to ambush and rob the coach which carries the fortnightly tax money. Implies that superstition and religion, pompous educational concepts and a paternalistic interpretation of the law can turn poor people into clumsy fools who are taught to accept and even laugh at their own miserable fate."
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