What am i worth
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | What am i worth |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Peter Scharf , Oliver Held |
| script |
Jörn Klarne , Peter Scharf |
| production | Birgit Schulz |
| music |
Christian Sasse , Peter Scharf |
| camera | Oliver Schwabe |
What am i worth is a German documentary directed by Peter Scharf from 2014.
Filmmaker Peter Scharf explores the question of whether the value of human life can be calculated and outweighed in money. In the film, he tries to sell his blood, his semen and his hair, talks to Tim Steiner, who sold the skin on his back to a German art collector for 150,000 euros, and interviews Moldovans who were lured to Turkey as guest workers and blackmailed one of their kidneys there were. Sharply discussed with Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence on the so - called quality - corrected year of life and with a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne on the criteria for determining the amount of compensation for pain and suffering . Peter Scharf also talks to an American lawyer who represents the victims and relatives of the Costa Concordia disaster and to Kenneth Feinberg, who was solely responsible for distributing the compensation for the survivors of the September 11th terrorist attacks . He discusses the concept of the value of statistical life with its co-developer, Kip Viscusi. While filming, Peter Scharf experienced Hurricane Sandy in New York.
Reviews
“Even if a person's worth cannot be expressed in money, it will be done. Every day. The filmmaker Peter Scharf has now made this clear, who has set out to search for his self-worth. His result: something between one and two million euros. Its pure material value: 1600 euros. "
“[The film] has an open structure that accommodates countless aspects, sometimes more, sometimes less interesting. Documentaries of this kind seem a bit unfinished, also very personal due to their emphatically subjective form, but often also like a filmed journalistic report that relies less on cinematic originality than on content bizarre. But that can also be entertaining. "
"What am I worth? reveals an important story under the obviously irrelevant question and is terrifyingly political, socio-economic and always extremely funny. "
Web links
- Website of the film
- What am i worth in the Internet Movie Database (English)