Peter Scharf

For many decades, it was Germany’s largest event venue and North Rhine-Westphalia’s “XXL living room”: the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. Opened in 1952—long before the boom in multipurpose venues of the ’90s and 2000s—the Westfalenhalle remains Germany’s third-largest venue in terms of audience size. A century-old building designated as a historic landmark that is deeply rooted in the history of North Rhine-Westphalia—and a show business legend right in the heart of the Ruhr region.

In the fall of 1976, show jumper Hendrik Snoek was kidnapped in Münster. The son of a wealthy family was hidden in a shaft under a bridge near Herborn. Chained by the neck, he was held captive for 50 days. The perpetrators demanded a ransom of five million marks. Snoek was released. It was not the only kidnapping case during that time. Many criminals struck fear into people’s hearts with ransom demands.

A filmmaker travels around the world and considers the literal meaning of the concept of "human capital." What am I worth? is the question that he asks himself and the people he talks to. Peter Scharf's discoveries are shocking, tragic and startling - and sometimes very funny.

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For many decades, it was Germany’s largest event venue and North Rhine-Westphalia’s “XXL living room”: the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. Opened in 1952—long before the boom in multipurpose venues of the ’90s and 2000s—the Westfalenhalle remains Germany’s third-largest venue in terms of audience size. A century-old building designated as a historic landmark that is deeply rooted in the history of North Rhine-Westphalia—and a show business legend right in the heart of the Ruhr region.

For many decades, it was Germany’s largest event venue and North Rhine-Westphalia’s “XXL living room”: the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund. Opened in 1952—long before the boom in multipurpose venues of the ’90s and 2000s—the Westfalenhalle remains Germany’s third-largest venue in terms of audience size. A century-old building designated as a historic landmark that is deeply rooted in the history of North Rhine-Westphalia—and a show business legend right in the heart of the Ruhr region.

In the fall of 1976, show jumper Hendrik Snoek was kidnapped in Münster. The son of a wealthy family was hidden in a shaft under a bridge near Herborn. Chained by the neck, he was held captive for 50 days. The perpetrators demanded a ransom of five million marks. Snoek was released. It was not the only kidnapping case during that time. Many criminals struck fear into people’s hearts with ransom demands.

In the fall of 1976, show jumper Hendrik Snoek was kidnapped in Münster. The son of a wealthy family was hidden in a shaft under a bridge near Herborn. Chained by the neck, he was held captive for 50 days. The perpetrators demanded a ransom of five million marks. Snoek was released. It was not the only kidnapping case during that time. Many criminals struck fear into people’s hearts with ransom demands.

A filmmaker travels around the world and considers the literal meaning of the concept of "human capital." What am I worth? is the question that he asks himself and the people he talks to. Peter Scharf's discoveries are shocking, tragic and startling - and sometimes very funny.

A filmmaker travels around the world and considers the literal meaning of the concept of "human capital." What am I worth? is the question that he asks himself and the people he talks to. Peter Scharf's discoveries are shocking, tragic and startling - and sometimes very funny.

No synopsis available yet.