7.0The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl · 1980
The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980) is a Drama film directed by Oliver Herbrich, starring Stephan Becker, Marianne Ploog, Joseph Reitinger.
Drama
7.0Overview
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.
Cast
Stephan Becker, Marianne Ploog, Joseph Reitinger, Rudi Eydmann, Elfriede Hildebrand, Martin Spiegler, Helmut Echtler, Ulrich Hauswaldt
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What is "The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl" about?
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.
When was "The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl" released?
The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl was released in 1980.
Who stars in "The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl"?
The cast includes Stephan Becker, Marianne Ploog, Joseph Reitinger, Rudi Eydmann.
