The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach Poster

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

1971 1h 42m star 6.5 / 10

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.

Top Billed Cast

Georg Lehn

Georg Lehn

Hans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef Cramer

Karl-Josef Cramer

Jacob Geiz

Margarethe von Trotta

Margarethe von Trotta

Sophie

Walter Buschhoff

Walter Buschhoff

Pfarrer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Bauer

Reinhard Hauff

Reinhard Hauff

Heinrich Geiz

Wolfgang Bächler

Wolfgang Bächler

David Briel

Karl-Heinz Merz

Karl-Heinz Merz

Landschütz Volk

Joe Hembus

Joe Hembus

Schreiber

Karl Renar

Karl Renar