The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl

The beginning of the end is starting now

  • Rated 7.0 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1980
  • 1h 12m
  • Drama

The Robber Mathias Kneißl became a legend in Bavaria. The film is based on the historical criminal case and describes the last year of the rebel and folk hero. At the age of 23, he is released from prison, where he has served an unreasonably harsh six-year sentence. When this becomes known, he loses his job as a carpenter and now wants to emigrate to America with his girlfriend. He hopes to earn the money for the journey by committing crimes. In the process, he fatally wounds a gendarme. Despite this, Mathias Kneißl does not leave the area and stays in the Dachau hinterland. Only when his girlfriend betrays him is he able to find his hiding place. The farm was besieged by 300 police officers for days and then shot up. Kneißl was seriously injured and treated in a clinic in Munich before being beheaded in Augsburg in 1902.

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Director
Oliver Herbrich
Starring
Stephan Becker, Marianne Ploog, Joseph Reitinger, Rudi Eydmann

Cast

  • Stephan Becker

    Mathias Kneißl

  • Marianne Ploog

    Mathilde Danner

  • Joseph Reitinger

    Flecklbauer

  • Rudi Eydmann

    Shepherd

  • Elfriede Hildebrand

    Clairvoyant

  • Martin Spiegler

    Carter

  • Helmut Echtler

    Vöst

  • Ulrich Hauswaldt

    Moseder

  • Bernhard Brychcy

    Monk

  • Gerd Silberbauer

    Gerd Silberbauer

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