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.

Top Billed Cast

Georg Lehn

Hans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef Cramer

Jacob Geiz

Margarethe von Trotta

Sophie

Walter Buschhoff

Pfarrer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Bauer