Measures of Men

At the end of the nineteenth century, idealistic ethnologist Alexander Hoffmann travels to Namibia. There he witnesses what is now seen as the first genocide of the twentieth century: the slaughter of the Herero and Nama people by the German colonists.

A dazzling feature film that sheds light on the dangers of pseudoscience, in the form of a historical drama set at a time when skull measuring was still a scientific research method – and was even used to justify horrific colonial violence.