The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
- 12
 - 01/26/1971 (DE)
 - Drama, Crime
 - 1h 42m
 
Overview
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.
Volker Schlöndorff
Director, WriterMargarethe von Trotta
WriterCast
    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