Measures of Men
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Berlin at the end of the 19th Century. Alexander Hoffmann is an ambitious PhD student of Ethnology. When a delegation of the Herero and Nama tribes travels to Berlin during a ‘Colonial Exhibition’, he takes a special interest in their young female translator Kezia Kambazembi as subject for his studies.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2023-02-22
Runtime: 116 mins
Director: Lars Kraume
Spoken language: Deutsch
Genres: Drama
Original title: Measures of Men
Production Companies: Zero One Film, StudioCanal, ZDF, Akzente Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH, WunderWerk, Joe Vision Production
Production Countries: Germany, Namibia
Cast
Leonard Scheicher
Girley Jazama
Peter Simonischek
Corinna Kirchhoff
Anton Paulus
Leo Meier
Sven Schelker
Max Koch
Ludger Bökelmann
Alexander Radszun
Michael Schenk
Tilo Werner
Patrick Berg
Michael del Coco
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