Der vermessene Mensch
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Berlin, end of the 19th century. Alexander Hoffmann (Leonard Scheicher) is an ambitious ethnology doctoral student at the Friedrich Wilhelm University. When a delegation of Herero and Nama from "German Southwest Africa" travels to Berlin as part of the "German Colonial Exhibition," Hoffmann meets the group's interpreter, Kezia Kambazembi (Girley Charlene Jazama). Hoffmann develops an intense interest in the Herero and Nama - and, after meeting and talking with them, contradicts mainstream evolutionist racial theory. Shortly thereafter, the uprising of the Herero and Nama in the colony of "German Southwest Africa" leads to war with the German occupiers. Hoffmann travels through the country under the protection of the imperial army, collecting artifacts and artifacts left behind for the Berlin Ethnological Museum. In truth, however, he continues to search for evidence to support his thesis - and for Kezia. On site, Hoffmann witnesses German soldiers carrying out the extermination order w...
This film is not shown in our current program
Our program for the cinema week starting on Thursday will be published each Monday afternoon