The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach(Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach)
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West Germany · 1971
1h 42m
Director Volker Schlöndorff
Starring Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Margarethe von Trotta, Walter Buschhoff
Genre Drama, Crime
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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.
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