Measures of Men

A morally complex historical drama examining the intersection of colonial exploitation, scientific racism, and personal desire through the fraught relationship between a German ethnologist and a Herero translator.

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.