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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Hans BrennerMathias Kneissl
Ruth DrexelRes Kneissl, Mathias' Mutter
Eva MattesKatharina Kneissl
Hanna SchygullaMathilde SchreckFrank Frey
Frank FreyAlois Kneissl
Gustl BayrhammerMühlbauer
Rainer Werner FassbinderFlecklbauer
Kurt RaabFritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer
Walter SedlmayrPolizistExplore the crew
- Director
- Reinhard Hauff
- Producer
- Philippe Pilliod
- Editor
- Jean-Claude Piroué
- Writer
- Reinhard Hauff
- Writer
- Martin Sperr
- Director of Photography
- W. P. Hassenstein