Joe Hembus
1933 - 1985The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Volker Schlöndorff
Georg Lehn, Karl-Josef Cramer
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.
The Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach
Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt wo Gewalt herrscht
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Henning Harmssen, Georg Zander
A story about the continuity and collapse of history, the power of suppression, and the terror of reconciliation; loyalty, treason and revenge. In a brave cinematic game, Heinrich Böll’s story Billiards at Half-Past Nine is split up into cracks, blocks, breaks and sudden turns, as the life story of a German family, covering numerous generations, is propelled forward.
Not Reconciled
