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The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl

The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl

Overview: 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.

Language: de

Release Date:

Oct 31, 1980

Genres:

Drama

Status: Released

Cast

Stephan Becker

Stephan Becker

Marianne Ploog

Marianne Ploog

Joseph Reitinger

Joseph Reitinger

Rudi Eydmann

Rudi Eydmann

Elfriede Hildebrand

Elfriede Hildebrand

Martin Spiegler

Martin Spiegler

Helmut Echtler

Ulrich Hauswaldt

Bernhard Brychcy

Gerd Silberbauer

Peter Magerl

Christoph Reinhold

Georg Hoffmann

Thomas Menzel

Johannes Pechthold

Sophie Schwarzmeier

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