Movies like The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)

Name: The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1971-04-14
Duration: 102 Min
Rating: 7
Cast: Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Reinhard Hauff

The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971)

Germany102Min

7 ( 423 Votes )

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.