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Measures of Men (German: Der vermessene Mensch – vermessen means measured as well as presumptuous) is a 2023 German drama film directed by Lars Kraume. Starring Leonard Scheicher as an ethnologist, the film tells the story of the Herero and Namaqua genocide which was perpetrated in German South West Africa (now Namibia) between ...
Mar 23, 2023 · With Leonard Scheicher, Girley Jazama, Peter Simonischek, Sven Schelker. End of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "German Southwest Africa" to gather art and skulls for the Berlin Ethnological Museum and slowly begins to lose his moral compass.
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- Drama, History, War
- Lars Kraume
- 2023-03-23
Mar 27, 2023 · 'Measures of Men' sheds light on German colonial crimes. Kevin Tschierse. 03/27/2023. A new German movie picks up the country's dark history of genocide against the Herero and...
Germany's historical bigotry against Africans, and its servitude toward legitimizing mass slaughter is documented in this historical drama. Set in turn-of the century Berlin, demonstrating what ...
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Feb 22, 2023 · 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.
Feb 18, 2023 · Lars Kraume, who explores Germany’s colonial past in “Measures of Men,” is working on a film inspired by a California prison program.
Sep 16, 2021 · MEASURES OF MEN. by Lars Kraume. synopsis. Alexander Hoffmann is determined to continue the legacy of his father, a pioneering ethnologist. At university, he gets caught up in the maelstrom of the evolutionist race theory of the late 19th century.
