“Imaginative, intelligent, funny!” (TV Direct)
Genre Period Drama
Year of Production 2012
Director Detlev Buck
Cast Florian David Fitz, Albrecht Schuch, Sunnyi Melles, Katharina ThalbachLength 124 mins
Awards Best Costume Design, Best Makeup (Austrian Film Award 2013)
The
contrasting lives of two brilliant and eccentric geniuses of the German
Enlightenment tie together in a story of passion, loneliness, love and
improvement. Carl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and founder of numbers
theory, and Alexander von Humboldt, adventurer and
explorer of South America (and the rest of the world).
Most people accept their destiny and survive. Two enthusiastic scientists go on an extraordinary adventure to fight against their predetermination.
An adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann’s global best-seller of the same name, MEASURING THE WORLD follows two brilliant 18th Century German scientists who explore groundbreaking methods of measuring the world. Mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855), a child prodigy born into a poor family, conceived his major discoveries by the age of 17 - all without ever leaving his home state. Scientific explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769 -1859), born into a wealthy family, set out to travel the world. Late in life, the two celebrated scientists have the opportunity to meet and talk to one another. They soon discover that they shared a special bond: the passion to understand the world they live in. With luscious sets, exotic locations and a well-chosen cast, the film succeeds in making its subject exciting and entertaining.
(Source: Kino Critics, Miami International Film Festival, The Match Factory)
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