1971
6.5 (16 votes)
1h 42m
Genres
Drama
Crime
Production Companies
Hallelujah-Film GmbH
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach)
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Producer: Volker Schlöndorff
Top Cast
Georg Lehn
Hans Jacob Geiz
Karl-Josef Cramer
Jacob Geiz
Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie
Walter Buschhoff
Pfarrer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bauer
Reinhard Hauff
Heinrich Geiz
Wolfgang Bächler
David Briel
Karl-Heinz Merz
Landschütz Volk
