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
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Flecklbauer
Kurt Raab
as Fritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer
Ruth Drexel
as Res Kneissl, Mathias' Mutter
Walter Sedlmayr
as Polizist
Karl Obermayr
Eva Mattes
as Katharina Kneissl
Gustl Bayrhammer
as Mühlbauer
Irm Hermann
Volker Schlöndorff
Hanna Schygulla
as Mathilde Schreck
Franz Peter Wirth
Hans Brenner
as Mathias Kneissl
