Movielogr
Mathias Kneißl (1971)
Directed by Reinhard Hauff
Overview
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 riches 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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Hans Brenner | Ruth Drexel | Eva Mattes | Hanna Schygulla | Frank Frey | Gustl Bayrhammer | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Kurt Raab | Walter Sedlmayr | Kelle Riedl | Alfons Scharf | Martin Sperr | Irm Hermann | Franziska Stömmer | Annemarie Wendl | Ursula Strätz | Werner Kließ | Volker Schlöndorff | Franz Peter Wirth | Peter Probst | Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand | Gustaf Dennert | Karl Obermayr