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Germany's historical bigotry against Africans, and its servitude toward legitimizing mass slaughter is documented in this historical drama. Set in turn-of th...
Measures of Men - Official selection of the South African Film Festival | SAFFEnd of 19th century German ethnologist Hoffmann travels to the former colony "G...
Measures of Men. Trailer [de] by Lars Kraume. mp4 (1920x1080) 2:07. <embed>. 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. Hoffmann is disgusted by the measuring of skulls, which has no ...
March 24, 2023 7:56am. An open air screening of 'Measures of Men' in Namibia. Sydelle Willow Smith. Director Lars Kraume knows a bit about the hidden corners of German history. His award-winning ...
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 1904 and 1908.
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. Hoffmann is disgusted by the measuring of skulls, which has no other purpose than to pseudo ...
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.
