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.
Georg Lehn
as Hans Jacob Geiz
Karl-Josef Cramer
as Jacob Geiz
Margarethe von Trotta
as Sophie
Walter Buschhoff
as Pfarrer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Bauer
Reinhard Hauff
as Heinrich Geiz
Wolfgang Bächler
as David Briel
Karl-Heinz Merz
as Landschütz Volk
Joe Hembus
as Schreiber
Karl Renar
as
Harald Müller
as Johann Soldan
Maria Donnerstag
as Frau Geiz
