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    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    1971

    1:42:19

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    The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

    Genre

    Drama
    Crime

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Volker Schlöndorff

    Writers

    Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta,

    Stars

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