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 riches 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.
Hans Brenner
Ruth Drexel
Eva Mattes
Hanna Schygulla
Frank Frey
Gustl Bayrhammer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Kurt Raab
Walter Sedlmayr
Kelle Riedl
Alfons Scharf
Martin Sperr
Irm Hermann
Franziska Stömmer
Annemarie Wendl
Ursula Strätz
Werner Kließ
Volker Schlöndorff
Franz Peter Wirth
Peter Probst
Ivo Vrzal-Wiegand
Gustaf Dennert
Karl Obermayr