Homo Faber - Digital Remastered

On a flight, 50-year-old engineer Walter Faber, a radical rationalist, unexpectedly meets Herbert, the brother of his college friend Joachim Hencke. After an emergency landing in the desert, Faber decides on a whim to accompany Herbert into the jungle of Guatemala, where Joachim owns a tobacco plantation. Upon their arrival, they discover that Joachim has taken his own life. Back in New York, Faber separates from his lover Ivy and travels to Europe by ship. On board, he meets the young Sabeth and falls in love with her. Sabeth plans to visit her mother in Athens, who turns out to be Faber's former girlfriend Hanna, whom he almost married. An unforeseen incident ultimately derails all their plans and plunges Faber, whose entire worldview was based on the belief in the predictability of life, into a deep crisis.

Volker Schlöndorff's visually stunning adaptation of Max Frisch's world-renowned novel features an outstanding cast including Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, and Barbara Sukowa, and was awarded the Silver Film Ribbon for Best Feature Film in 1991. The German Film and Media Rating in Wiesbaden awarded Homo Faber the designation "particularly valuable.".