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The Proud and Sad Life of Mathias Kneissl

Behind the scenes

Cast

Stephan Becker ................. Mathias Kneissl

Marianne Ploog ................ Mathilde Danner

Joseph Reitinger ....................... Flecklbauer

Rudolf Eydmann ............................. shepherd

Elfriede Hildebrand .................... clairvoyant

Martin Spiegler ............................. coachman

Helmut Echtler ......................................... Vöst

Ulrich Hauswald .............................. Moseder

Bernhard Brychcy ................................. monk

 

and

Christoph Reinhold ....................... framhand

Sophie Schwarzmeier .......................... maid

Gerd Silberbauer ................... police captain

Johannes Pechtold ........................ gendarm

Peter Magerl .................................... gendarm

Thomas Menzel .............................. gendarm

Georg Hoffmann ............................. gendarm

Crew

Oliver Herbrich ... screenplay and director

Ludolph Weyer .................. cinematograohy

Romy Schumann ................................ editing

Max Müller ...............sound recording, stills

Sylvia Tewes ...................... sound recording

Jan Betke............................assistant camera

Stephan Becker .............. location manager

Titus Lange ...................... assistant director

Markus Osterrieder ...................... continuity

Heribert Kansy ............................ light & grip

Sebastian Lentz .......................... light & grip

Marlene Reidel .............. artwork woodcuts

Karsten Ullrich ............. re-recording mixer

Wolfgang Grimmeisen ........................Trailer

 

Oliver Herbrich

Filmproduktion .......... production company

 

Funding (production and distribution):

Kuratorium junger deutscher Film

 

Thanks to

Dr Siegfried Dörffeldt

HFF Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film

Rob Houwer Film

Loft Tonstudio

Daimler Benz

Tech specs

Lenght ..................................... 783m/72 min

Film .......................... 16mm Eastman color

Aspect ratio ......................................... 1: 1,33

Equipment .......................................Gruppe 3

Film lab ...............................................Bavaria

Blow up .................... Filmtechnik 16 Rings

Digital scan ......................................... Berola

Color grading ....... Wolfgang Grimmeisen

 

Sound ............................................... German

Rating (FSK) ................16 years and older

 

Shot on location 07.1979 - 08.1980 in

Dachau, Erdinger Moos, Landshut, Hennermais Vilshofen, Vogelherd Bichl, island of Helgoland.

 

Alternative titel:

Flucht ohne Ausweg (working title)

Das stolze und traurige Leben des Mathias Kneißl (Germany)

Availability:

Print 35mm ComOpt, 16mm ComMag

DCP, BluRay (ditially remastered in HD)

Festivals/Release

Premiere ............ Hof International Filmdays

                             31.10.1980

Cinema release  06.02.1981 Munich

 

Distribution 35mm ............endfilm, Munich

Distribution 16mm ............Filmverlag  der
                                            Autoren, Munich

                                            Verleih der

                                            Filmemacher

Film evalaution rating

FBW ............................... highly recommended

 

Festivals:

Hof International Filmdays 10.1980

Mas Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken 2.1981

Tage des unabhängigen Films, Augsburg

  4.1987

Low Budget Filmfest, Hamburg 6.1987

Literature:

Oliver Herbrich "Volkshelden wider Willen. Mathias Kneißl - Theo Berger. Drehbuch" 2018 (Fichtion – Non-Fiction Film Edition)

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