Mathias Kneißl
Mathias Kneißl
Release: 1971-05-27
·Runtime: 94m
·★ 5.0
Drama
Inspired by the real-life events of Mathias Kneißl, a marginal man, son of poor farmers from Bavaria, in the late XIX century. Mathias stole from the rich to give to the poor, becoming a hero for the rural people and a popular social rebel. He was chased by the police until his unfortunate sentence.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Bavaria Film
WDR
Cast
Karl Obermayr
Gustl Bayrhammer
as Mühlbauer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Flecklbauer
Volker Schlöndorff
Hans Brenner
as Mathias Kneissl
Irm Hermann
Eva Mattes
as Katharina Kneissl
Kurt Raab
as Fritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer
Walter Sedlmayr
as Polizist
Franz Peter Wirth
Ruth Drexel
as Res Kneissl, Mathias' Mutter
Hanna Schygulla
as Mathilde Schreck
