Mathias Kneißl(1971)

movie - first aired/released 1971-05-27 - audience 6.5

Directed by Reinhard Hauff

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.