The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach

Name: The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Released: 1971
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Reinhard Hauff, Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer, Wolfgang Bächler, Harry Owen

1971 · 102 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 426 VOTES · DIR. Volker Schlöndorff

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Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 746 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:01 THE SUDDEN WEALTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF KOMBACH

00:04:02 which won't hurt us.

00:08:29 If someone gets killed like that

00:13:27 to be able to do as I promised

00:16:07 Potatoes are like honey

00:21:18 I shouldn't have come to Offenbach.

00:25:54 any more involved in this criminal act.

00:30:58 So please stay with your fields

00:33:18 And I could do it on my own.

00:45:59 Not rank nor money will give you happiness.

00:50:39 the changing of the voices

00:53:41 Many clues came in, true and false.

00:56:07 and you speak out the names of your suspects.

00:58:26 There are lots of them in Kombach.

01:00:53 He gave it as a prize.

01:04:05 I have orders from Giesen.

01:07:35 an iron plow worth 20 guilders

01:09:56 I'm a rich man on a journey

01:13:19 I'll wait until tomorrow.

01:16:14 That one doesn't trust in God's mercy

01:19:55 Luther says a Christian submits to authority

01:23:28 payment of the costs

01:26:54 Texas, Arkansas...

01:29:33 Where even in winter the roses stand.

Cast & Characters

Reinhard Hauff Heinrich Geiz Georg Lehn Hans Jacob Geiz Karl-Josef Cramer Jacob Geiz Wolfgang Bächler David Briel Harry Owen Ludwig Acker Harald Müller Johann Soldan Margarethe von Trotta Sophie Angelika Hillebrecht Johanna Soldan Maria Donnerstag Frau Geiz Wilhelm Grasshoff Richter Danz

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed746

Dialogue density7.3 lines / min

First line00:00:01

Final line01:29:33

Production Record

DirectorVolker Schlöndorff

LanguageGerman

IMDb votes426