Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (1969)
- Original title
- Scarabea - Wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?
- Directed by
- Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A man drives his ambition for land and wealth to its ruthless conclusion. His actions set off a chain of events that lead him toward his final tussle with the earth itself.
bleakslow-burnphilosophicalgrimearthytragiccontemplativevisceral
What happens
Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need? (German: Scarabea - wieviel Erde braucht der Mensch?) is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, starring Walter Buschhoff, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Franz Friedrich Graf Treuberg and Karsten Peters. The film was Syberberg's first fiction film and uses motifs from the 1886 short story "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy. It won the Deutscher Filmpreis for Best Actor (Buschhoff) and Best Cinematography. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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