The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

04/14/1971

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1hr 42min

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Drama

,Crime

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Georg Lehn
  • Karl-Josef Cramer
  • Margarethe von Trotta
  • Walter Buschhoff
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder

    Directors

  • Volker Schlöndorff
  • Margarethe von Trotta

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Hallelujah-Film GmbH

    Production Countries

  • Germany

LANGUAGES

  • German