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Overview
Original title: PLOETZLICHE REICHTUM DER ARMEN LEUTE VON KOMBACH, DER
Genre: Drama
Country, Year of production: D, 1971
Cast
Reinhard Hauff; Georg Lehn; Wolfgang Bächler; Margarethe von Trotta; Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Joe Hembus
Crew
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay: Volker Schlöndorff; Margarethe von Trotta
Director of Photography: Franz Rath
Producer: Eberhard Junkersdorf
Musik: Klaus Doldinger
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SUDDEN WEALTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF KOMBACH, THE
In the year 1821, seven poor farmers and day laborers from Kombach in Upper Hesse try to rob the "money wagon", that transports the tax money from Biedenkopf to Gießen every month, in order to improve their situation. They fail five times due to their own clumsiness. When they finally succeed, they are quickly arrested, because "it's suspicious when a poor man has money". A documented report titled "The Mail Robbery in Subach", which was put to print in 1825 from the Criminal Secretary Carl Franz, and reprinted by a regional newspaper in 1909, was the main source.
Awards
1971 Berlin Internationale Filmfestspiele / Berlinale – Filmband in Gold für Beste Regie (Volker Schlöndorff)
1971 Deutscher Filmpreis / Bundesfilmpreis – Filmband in Gold für Beste Regie (Volker Schlöndorff)
1971 San Sebastian Int. Filmfestival – OCIC Award (Volker Schlöndorff)