Robber Kneißl
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| Original title | Robber Kneißl |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 114 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| script | Karin Michalke Christian Lerch |
| production |
Quirin Berg Max Wiedemann |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Stefan Biebl |
| cut | Georg Soering |
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Räuber Kneißl is a German feature film by the director Marcus H. Rosenmüller , which is about the life of the Bavarian robber Mathias Kneißl from 1892 until his execution in 1902. After the 1970 film Mathias Kneißl by Reinhard Hauff with Hans Brenner in the leading role and the film " The proud and sad life of Mathias Kneißl " by Oliver Herbrich from 1980, this is the third film adaptation of Mathias Kneißl's life story.
action
In the Schachermühle in the Dachau hinterland, the Kneißl family lead a modest life in poverty. Small thefts and poaching can keep them afloat. Mathias Kneißl was already noticed by the judiciary as a child due to the looting of an offering box . One day the father is killed by the police while trying to escape and the mother has to go to prison. Mathias Kneißl and his brother Alois are later imprisoned because of a shootout. Alois does not survive the prison .
After his release from prison, Mathias is full of hope and plans for the future. He would like to emigrate to America with his loved one, Mathilde, in order to build a new, respectable existence for himself there. However, the necessary money is missing. Because of his life story and his imprisonment, many employers refuse to hire this “ convict ”. Instead of the honest work desired by Kneißl, he gets involved in a "surefire thing" in which a rich farmer is to be robbed. However, not everything is going according to plan and the police are looking for him again.
background
The film was shown from September to November 2007 in the Bavarian Forest Museum Village in Tittling , in the Ginghartinger Mühle in the Freyung-Grafenau district , in the Massing open-air museum in the Rottal-Inn district, in the former Freising prison and in locations in the Czech Republic , Landshut , Moosburg , Munich and Environment rotated. It is a production by Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk. The world premiere took place on June 24, 2008 as part of the Munich Film Festival , and it was released in theaters on August 21, 2008. Räuber Kneißl reached around 230,000 moviegoers in Germany.
According to Rosenmüller, he attached great importance to the authentic reproduction of Kneißl's biography, although the adventure and the love story were his top priority. The admiration that Kneißl experiences today, up to and including transfiguration, is based, according to the film brochure, on the fact that many Bavarians see the rebellious as a Bavarian virtue and that excessive paternalism only inspires resistance in them.
Reviews
- The lexicon of international films calls the “picture book-like recapitulation of Mathias Kneißl's short life” a “mixture of chronicle and ballad, close to historical facts, but staged with a fairytale burlesque gesture. The drama, which strives for historicity in the equipment and set design, avoids earlier socio-critical interpretations, but does not add any new interpretation to the consistently positively drawn figure. "
- In the Münchner Merkur, Ulrike Frick praises the "meticulous and loving details of the era of social injustice" . In addition, she says that Rosenmullerhohle with the film "with a sombre halo LABEL FOR folk hero" an "unusual blend of Western and regional film had succeeded in which tragic, cruel and alternate serene moments." It also highlights the "exquisite performer" out which "fortunately all have command of the necessary idiom " . However, Frick also criticizes the fact that the film "disintegrates too much into individual scenes worth seeing" , that this film adaptation does not come close to the "crushing force" that Reinhard Hauff was able to give his version in 1970, and Brückner does not come close to the "incomparable Hans Brenner " .
“Rosenmüller finds haunting images of the hopelessness and tragedy of Kneißl: how he holed up behind fences and walls, how he crawled into chambers where his reflection still seems to be trapped in the mirror frame. In contrast, the images of longing for freedom, the sun-drenched moments of happiness with Mathilde: When he picks her up from Munich by bike and storms towards freedom, as in 'Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid'. Kneißl's longing for America is expressly expressed in Western references: from the brothel scene to the Peckinpah showdown fireworks. "
“Even otherwise excellent actors, the director Rosenmüller drives into an almost silent film-like spasm of expression of trembling lips, grinding teeth and trembling fists. This is how 'Räuber Kneißl' becomes a true horror film. "
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”.
Web links
- Robber Kneissl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Robber Kneißl at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for robbers Kneißl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2008 (PDF; test number: 114 694 K).
- ↑ “The proud and sad life of Mathias Kneißl” , film website (accessed on March 22, 2019).
- ↑ Annual hit list (national) 2008. (PDF) In: Film hit lists. Filmförderungsanstalt , accessed on November 25, 2017 .
- ↑ Räuber Kneißl - prospectus for the film
- ↑ Räuber Kneißl in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Western from Bavaria: With a gloomy halo , Münchner Merkur from August 21, 2008, p. 18
- ↑ Rainer Gansera: Neglect in the blood. Finally a Bavarian western again - 'Robber Kneißl'. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 11, 2010, accessed on December 3, 2016 .
- ^ Wolfgang Höbel: Munich Film Festival: New German Blood and Brodel Cinema. In: Culture. Spiegel Online, June 25, 2008, accessed November 25, 2017 .