The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl
31/10/1980
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.
Movie Information
Stephan Becker
as Mathias Kneißl
Marianne Ploog
as Mathilde Danner
Joseph Reitinger
as Flecklbauer
Rudi Eydmann
as Shepherd
Elfriede Hildebrand
as Clairvoyant
Martin Spiegler
as Carter
Helmut Echtler
as Vöst
Ulrich Hauswaldt
as Moseder
Bernhard Brychcy
as Monk
Gerd Silberbauer
as
Peter Magerl
as
Christoph Reinhold
as
Georg Hoffmann
as
Thomas Menzel
as
Johannes Pechthold
as
Sophie Schwarzmeier
as
