The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)
The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)
The beginning of the end is starting now
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

Stephan Becker Stephan Becker As: Mathias Kneißl
Marianne Ploog Marianne Ploog As: Mathilde Danner
Joseph Reitinger Joseph Reitinger As: Flecklbauer
Rudi Eydmann Rudi Eydmann As: Shepherd
Elfriede Hildebrand Elfriede Hildebrand As: Clairvoyant
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Storyline

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.


Tagline: The beginning of the end is starting now
Certification: 16

Details

Genres: Drama

Language: Deutsch

Release Date: 31 October 1980

Country: DE

Runtime: 72m

Company Credits

Company: Oliver Herbrich Filmproduktion

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Cast

Directed By

Oliver Herbrich

Oliver Herbrich

Director

Markus Osterrieder

Markus Osterrieder

Assistant Director

Titus Lange

Titus Lange

Assistant Director

Titus Lange

Titus Lange

Continuity

Markus Osterrieder

Markus Osterrieder

Continuity

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Camera

Ludolph Weyer

Ludolph Weyer

Director of Photography

Jan Betke

Jan Betke

Assistant Camera

Heribert Kansy

Heribert Kansy

Grip

Max Müller

Max Müller

Still Photographer

Lighting

Sebastian Lentz

Sebastian Lentz

Lighting Technician

Art Department

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