The Price of My Life

Peter Scharf Duitsland 2014 90 min.

How much is a human life worth? Director Peter Scharf asks this particularly fascinating question in The Price of My Life. With a camera on his shoulder, he travels around the world to find equally fascinating answers. What is an arm worth? Or a liter of blood? And can we express a human life in euros?

Suppose you sold your body in pieces, how much money would you get? Peter Scharf carefully examines the monetary value of a human life. He travels to various countries and asks what price we can put on a human body. He discovers many different perspectives. Insurance companies and governments determine how much a person's life is economically worth. Scharf talks to experts who have to convert lives into figures but presents this serious subject with a dash of humor.