Where to watch The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980) in the UK
The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl (1980) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 18 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.
The beginning of the end is starting now
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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Cast & crew
Top-billed cast in The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneißl.
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Stephan BeckerMathias Kneißl
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Marianne PloogMathilde Danner
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Joseph ReitingerFlecklbauer
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Rudi EydmannShepherd
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Elfriede HildebrandClairvoyant
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Martin SpieglerCarter
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Helmut EchtlerVöst
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Ulrich HauswaldtMoseder
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