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.

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Cast

Hans Brenner

Mathias Kneissl

Ruth Drexel

Res Kneissl, Mathias' Mutter

Eva Mattes

Katharina Kneissl

Hanna Schygulla

Mathilde Schreck

Gustl Bayrhammer

Mühlbauer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Flecklbauer

Kurt Raab

Fritz Rechthaler, Jungbauer

Walter Sedlmayr

Polizist

Irm Hermann

Volker Schlöndorff

Franz Peter Wirth

Karl Obermayr