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.
Stars: Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Margarethe von Trotta, Walter Buschhoff, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Reinhard Hauff
Crew: Volker Schlöndorff (Director), Volker Schlöndorff (Writer), Margarethe von Trotta (Writer), Claus von Boro (Editor), Klaus Doldinger (Music), Volker Schlöndorff (Producer)
Country: Germany
Language: Deutsch
Studio: Hallelujah-Film GmbH
Runtime: 102 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 14, 1971
IMDb: 4.6
Keywords:
