Measures of Men (2023)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 56M
Director : Lars Kraume
Escritor : Lars Kraume
Sinopsis
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.
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