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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 1904 and 1908.
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.
Mar 31, 2023 · “Measures of Men,” which was filmed in Berlin and Namibia, focuses on an ambitious German ethnologist (Leonard Scheicher) who develops a fascination with a Herero woman (Girley Jazama) after...
Feb 18, 2023 · “Measures of Men” is Germany’s first feature film to examine the country’s violent colonial past, something very few Germans are even aware even existed.
MEASURES OF MEN Trailer | VIFF 2023. Germany's historical bigotry against Africans, and its servitude toward legitimizing mass slaughter is documented in this historical drama. Set in turn-of...
Mar 24, 2023 · German movie Measures of Men is the first to address the history of the German genocide of the Herero and Nama people in Namibia under colonialism.
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.
