Measures of Men

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.

Cast

Leonard Scheicher

as Alexander Hoffmann

Girley Jazama

as Kezia Kambazembi

Peter Simonischek

as Josef Ritter von Waldstätten

Corinna Kirchhoff

as Henriette Hoffmann

Anton Paulus

as Friedrich Maharero

Leo Meier

as Bernd Wendenburg

Sven Schelker

as Wolf von Crensky

Max Koch

as Korporal Kramer

Ludger Bökelmann

as Fähnrich Hartung

Alexander Radszun

as General Lothar von Trotha

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