Overview
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.
Director and 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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