Movie Details
Original Language:German
Production Companies:Oliver Herbrich Filmproduktion
The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl
"The beginning of the end is starting now"Movie
1 hr 12 minDrama
Plot
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 sixyear 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
