The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Apr 14 1971
•2h 42m
•Drama, Crime
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.
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Georg Lehn
Hans Jacob Geiz
Karl-Josef Cramer
Jacob Geiz
Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie
Walter Buschhoff
Pfarrer
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