Mathias Kneissl
Hanna Schygulla (Costume designer), Martin Sperr (Writer of accompanying material), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Costume designer), Reinhard Hauff (Director), Hans Brenner (Costume designer), Ruth Drexel (Costume designer)
Set in the early 1900s this film tells the story of Mathias Kneissl, a Bavarian national hero, a kind of Robin Hood figure. Hauff wanted to show in an unsentimental way the role of social environment in determining people's behaviour
Film, German, 1971
Bavaria [production company] : WDR [production company], Germany, 1971