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The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 14, 1971

Runtime

1h 42m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

64%

Original Title

Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach

Production Companies

Hallelujah-Film GmbH

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Description

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.