The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl

The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980)

The beginning of the end is starting now

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1980-10-31
  • Runtime: 1h 12min
  • Language: Deutsch
  • Production Company: Oliver Herbrich Filmproduktion
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Director: Oliver Herbrich

Summary

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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  • 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
Production Stephan Becker Unit Manager
Sound Max Müller Sound
Sound Karsten Ullrich Sound Mixer
Lighting Sebastian Lentz Lighting Technician
Camera Ludolph Weyer Director of Photography
Crew Marlene Reidel Carpenter
Directing Oliver Herbrich Director
Directing Markus Osterrieder Assistant Director
Camera Max Müller Still Photographer
Directing Markus Osterrieder Continuity
Directing Titus Lange Assistant Director
Camera Jan Betke Assistant Camera
Crew Rob Houwer Thanks
Writing Oliver Herbrich Writer
Production Oliver Herbrich Producer
Camera Heribert Kansy Grip
Sound Sylvia Tewes Sound
Directing Titus Lange Continuity
Editing Romy Schumann Editor

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