The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
1971    1h 42mDrama, Crime
7.0
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.
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Cast of The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
  • Georg LehnHans Jacob Geiz
  • Karl-Josef CramerJacob Geiz
  • Margarethe von TrottaSophie
  • Walter BuschhoffPfarrer
  • Rainer Werner FassbinderBauer
  • Reinhard HauffHeinrich Geiz
  • Wolfgang BächlerDavid Briel
  • Karl-Heinz MerzLandschütz Volk
  • Joe HembusSchreiber
  • Karl Renar
  • Harald MüllerJohann Soldan
  • Maria DonnerstagFrau Geiz
  • Angelika HillebrechtJohanna Soldan
  • Harry OwenLudwig Acker
  • Wilhelm GrasshoffRichter Danz
  • Eva PampuchGänseliesel
 
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