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Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
| image = Scarabea poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Hans-Jrgen Syberberg
| producer = Hans Jrgen Syberberg
| screenplay = Hans-Jrgen Syberberg
| based_on = "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" by Leo Tolstoy
| starring =
| music = Eugen Thomass
| cinematography =
| editing = Barbara Mondry
| studio = TMS Film GmbH
| distributor =
| released =
| runtime = 114 minutes
| country = West Germany
| language = German
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?' is a 1969 West German drama film directed by Hans-Jrgen Syberberg, starring Walter Buschhoff, Nicoletta Machiavelli, and Karsten Peters. It tells the story of a German tourist in Sardinia who goes on a hike which becomes a brutal experience. 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.
Cast
* Walter Buschhoff as G. W. Bach
* Nicoletta Machiavelli as Scarabea
* as Der Graf
* Karsten Peters as Regisseur
* Chris A. Holenia
* Rudolf Rhomberg
* Norma Jordan
References
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