DER VERMESSENE MENSCH

The young, ambitious German anthropologist Alexander Hoffmann is purportedly travelling through German South West Africa to collect artefacts for Berlin’s Ethnological Museum as the Ovaherero and Nama peoples rise up against German colonial troops. However, Hoffmann is in fact there to disprove the accepted evolutionist race theory and find the young woman Herero interpreter Kezia who had been a part of a delegation attending a colonial exhibition in Berlin. Although he witnesses German soldiers showing extreme brutality as they carry out the extermination order, Hoffmann also crosses moral boundaries when he agrees to send his Berlin professor skulls and skeletons of dead Ovaherero for the purpose of research...