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

  • 12
  • 01/26/1971 (DE)
  • Drama, Crime
  • 1h 42m

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.

Volker Schlöndorff

Director, Writer

Margarethe von Trotta

Writer

Cast

Georg Lehn's headshot

Georg Lehn

Hans Jacob Geiz
Karl-Josef Cramer's headshot

Karl-Josef Cramer

Jacob Geiz
Margarethe von Trotta's headshot

Margarethe von Trotta

Sophie
Walter Buschhoff's headshot

Walter Buschhoff

Pfarrer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's headshot

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Bauer
Reinhard Hauff's headshot

Reinhard Hauff

Heinrich Geiz
Wolfgang Bächler's headshot

Wolfgang Bächler

David Briel
Karl-Heinz Merz's headshot

Karl-Heinz Merz

Landschütz Volk

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