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The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 31, 1980

Original Title:
Das stolze und traurige Leben des Mathias Kneißl

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Oliver Herbrich Filmproduktion

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
DE: 16 

Runtime: 72

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Overview from TheMovieDB

The Robber Mathias Kneißl became a legend in Bavaria. The film is based on the historical criminal case and describes the last year of the rebel and folk hero. At the age of 23, he is released from prison, where he has served an unreasonably harsh six-year sentence. When this becomes known, he loses his job as a carpenter and now wants to emigrate to America with his girlfriend. He hopes to earn the money for the journey by committing crimes. In the process, he fatally wounds a gendarme. Despite this, Mathias Kneißl does not leave the area and stays in the Dachau hinterland. Only when his girlfriend betrays him is he able to find his hiding place. The farm was besieged by 300 police officers for days and then shot up. Kneißl was seriously injured and treated in a clinic in Munich before being beheaded in Augsburg in 1902.

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Production

Assistant Camera:
Jan Betke

Assistant Director:
Markus Osterrieder
Titus Lange

Carpenter:
Marlene Reidel

Continuity:
Markus Osterrieder
Titus Lange

Director:
Oliver Herbrich

Director of Photography:
Ludolph Weyer

Editor:
Romy Schumann

Grip:
Heribert Kansy

Lighting Technician:
Sebastian Lentz

Producer:
Oliver Herbrich

Sound:
Max Müller
Sylvia Tewes

Sound Mixer:
Karsten Ullrich

Still Photographer:
Max Müller

Thanks:
Rob Houwer

Unit Manager:
Stephan Becker

Writer:
Oliver Herbrich

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