The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach [Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach]

Release Year
1971
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Crime
Drama
Directed By
Not Available
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.

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