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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
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.
Length 102 minutes
Actors
Georg Lehn | Karl-Josef Cramer | Margarethe von Trotta | Walter Buschhoff | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Reinhard Hauff | Wolfgang Bächler | Karl-Heinz Merz | Joe Hembus | Karl Renar | Harald Müller | Maria Donnerstag | Angelika Hillebrecht | Harry Owen | Wilhelm Grasshoff | Eva Pampuch