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

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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