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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | The Couch Critic

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

April 14, 1971

1h 42m

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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Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Cast: Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Margarethe von Trotta, Walter Buschhoff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Reinhard Hauff, Wolfgang Bächler, Karl-Heinz Merz, Joe Hembus, Karl Renar
Release Date: April 14, 1971
Production: Hallelujah-Film GmbH

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