The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)
1h 12m
Running Time
October 31, 1980Release Date

The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)
1h 12m
Running Time
October 31, 1980Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Stephan Becker
Mathias Kneißl / Unit Manager

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

Peter Magerl

Oliver Herbrich
Writer / Director / Producer

Ludolph Weyer
Director of Photography

Romy Schumann
Editor

Markus Osterrieder
Assistant Director / Continuity

Titus Lange
Assistant Director / Continuity

Marlene Reidel
Carpenter

Max Müller
Sound / Still Photographer

Karsten Ullrich
Sound Mixer

Sylvia Tewes
Sound

Jan Betke
Assistant Camera

Heribert Kansy
Grip

Sebastian Lentz
Lighting Technician

Rob Houwer
Thanks

Sophie Schwarzmeier

Johannes Pechthold

Thomas Menzel

Christoph Reinhold

Georg Hoffmann
Details.
Release DateOctober 31, 1980
Original NameDas stolze und traurige Leben des Mathias Kneißl
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 12m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
robber
bavaria
folk hero