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Mathias Kneißl

5.0 94 mins Drama   1971
Bavaria Film   WDR  
Director(s): Reinhard Hauff

Release Date: 27 Thu, May 1971

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.

Casts of Mathias Kneißl

Hans Brenner

as Mathias Kneissl

Ruth Drexel

as Res Kneissl, Mathias' Mutter

Eva Mattes

as Katharina Kneissl

Hanna Schygulla

as Mathilde Schreck

Frank Frey

as Alois Kneissl

Gustl Bayrhammer

as Mühlbauer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

as Flecklbauer

Kurt Raab

as Fritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer

Walter Sedlmayr

as Polizist

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