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On 19 May 1822, eight poor farmers and day laborers from Kombach in the Hessian Hinterland succeed in robbing a money transport that runs from Gladenbach to Gießen every month. Their good fortune, however, does not last, as their sudden wealth is soon treated with suspicion.
Reichtum der Armen Leute von Kombach (The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People from Kom-bach). The film was based on the actual records of an armed robbery in the district of Hesse in the early nineteenth century. It was shot in black-and-white and is organized in, approximately, the following way. The opening titles are superimposed over a
Jan 29, 1971 · Der plötzliche Reichtum der armen Leute von Kombach. In an attempt to escape poverty in the 1800s, eight German farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.
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- Drama
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 1971-01-29
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 and reprogrammed by what we'll put under the rubric of God and Country.
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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- Karl Renar
- Volker Schlöndorff
- 2
Watch Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach | Netflix. In an attempt to escape poverty in the 1800s, eight German farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the countryside. Watch trailers & learn more.
Der Postraub in der Subach ( Mail Robbery in the Subach) titles the chronicle of a criminal case that took place in the early years of the 19th century in the valley of Subach near Kombach in the county Marburg-Biedenkopf.
