
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
6.5
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Apr 14, 1971 (DE)
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Drama, Crime
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01:42
An intriguing Hans Christian Andersen-style fairy tale aesthetic and voice-over narration. Sudden Wealth is a despairing chronicle of a group of starving peasants who finally seize governmental wealth like a dysfunctional group of Robin Hood's Merry Men, only to be betrayed by their inescapable selves and systematically dehumanized (think bucolic Orwell) and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
Featured Crew
Director, Writer, Producer
Writer
Music
Editor
Cinematography
Cast

Georg Lehn
Hans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef Cramer
Jacob Geiz

Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie

Walter Buschhoff
Pfarrer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bauer

Reinhard Hauff
Heinrich Geiz

Wolfgang Bächler
David Briel

Karl-Heinz Merz
Landschütz Volk

Joe Hembus
Schreiber