The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach(1971)

65

1h 42m

  • Drama,
  • Crime

Overview

An intriguing Hans Christian Anderson-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.

Cast

  • Georg Lehn

    Georg Lehn

    Hans Jacob Geiz

  • Karl-Josef Cramer

    Karl-Josef Cramer

    Jacob Geiz

  • Margarethe von Trotta

    Margarethe von Trotta

    Sophie

  • Walter Buschhoff

    Walter Buschhoff

    Pfarrer

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Bauer

  • Reinhard Hauff

    Reinhard Hauff

    Heinrich Geiz

  • Wolfgang Bächler

    Wolfgang Bächler

    David Briel

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    Status

    Released (Apr 14, 1971)

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