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Kurt Langbein
AT 2015 56' 94'
⚬ Green ⚬ Society
"Buy land, they're not making it anymore." - Mark Twain
The world’s farmland is at risk. Demand for land has soared as investors look for places to grow food for export, grow crops for biofuels or simply buy up land for profit. The film gives an inside look into the world of investors in the international agro-business and how the politics of the European Union is involved. Land grabbing doesn't only happen in Asia and Africa, but also in Europe's breadbasket Romania. LAND GRABBING takes a closer look into Europe and also challenges investors and their practices.
Director | Kurt Langbein |
Producer | Kurt Langbein |
Production Company | Langbein & Partner Media |
Cinematography | Wolfgang Thaler, Attila Boa, Christian Roth |
Writers | Christian Brüser, Kurt Langbein |
Editor | Andrea Wagner |
Music | Thomas Kathriner |
Sound | Blautöne Tonstudio |
DocVille 2015 |
Cambridge FF 2015 |
IDFA 2015 |
Cinemambiente 2016 |
One World FF 2016 |
Another Way FF 2016 |
| Runtimes | 56' 94' |
Spoken Languages | German, English, Khmer, Romanian, Amhari, Tigrinia, Temne |
| Production Countries | Austria |
Kurt Langbein, born in 1953, holds a degree in sociology from Vienna University. 1979 – 1989 documentary filmmaker and feature-journalist with ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), 1989 – 1992 Austrian news editor with the news-magazine profil, since 1992 at Langebein & Partner Media as CEO and producer and director of several documentaries and TV-reports. Writer of several non-fiction books (e.g. Bitter Pills 1983, Guidebook to Healthfulness1986, Prolonging Life – At What Cost 1994, 1996, The Medicine Syndicate 2003, Medicine: Classified Information 2009, Pushing Down Daisies – Life After Cancer 2012). 2011 he was awarded the Leopold Ungar-Prize for his TV documentary THE SENSE OF ENDOWING.
