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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

6.5 average rating
6.5
German / 102 MIN. / 1971

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Georg LehnKarl-Josef CramerMargarethe von TrottaWalter BuschhoffRainer Werner FassbinderReinhard HauffWolfgang BächlerKarl-Heinz MerzJoe HembusKarl RenarHarald MüllerMaria DonnerstagAngelika HillebrechtHarry OwenWilhelm GrasshoffEva Pampuch

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