The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

102 mins | Drama, Crime | April 14, 1971

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 Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

102 mins | Drama, Crime | April 14, 1971

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Hallelujah-Film GmbH
Original title Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach
Directors Volker Schlöndorff
Writers Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Georg Lehn

as Hans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef Cramer

as Jacob Geiz

Walter Buschhoff

as Pfarrer

Reinhard Hauff

as Heinrich Geiz

Wolfgang Bächler

as David Briel

Karl-Heinz Merz

as Landschütz Volk

Joe Hembus

as Schreiber

Harald Müller

as Johann Soldan

Maria Donnerstag

as Frau Geiz

Angelika Hillebrecht

as Johanna Soldan

Harry Owen

as Ludwig Acker

Wilhelm Grasshoff

as Richter Danz

Eva Pampuch

as Gänseliesel