The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Stephan Becker

Mathias Kneißl

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Marianne Ploog

Mathilde Danner

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Joseph Reitinger

Flecklbauer

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Rudi Eydmann

Shepherd

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Elfriede Hildebrand

Clairvoyant

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Martin Spiegler

Carter

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Helmut Echtler

Vöst

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Ulrich Hauswaldt

Moseder

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Crew

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