title: Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
text: # Scarabea: How Much Land Does a Man Need?
  
  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 [de] 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
  * Franz Friedrich Graf Treuberg [de] as Der Graf
  * Karsten Peters as Regisseur
  * Chris A. Holenia
  * Rudolf Rhomberg
  * Norma Jordan
  