

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)
Overview
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.
Overview
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.
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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