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.

Credits

Volker SchlöndorffDirector

Georg LehnHans Jacob Geiz

Karl-Josef CramerJacob Geiz

Margarethe von TrottaSophie

Walter BuschhoffPfarrer