Measuring the World

Release date: 2012-10-24
Votes: 138
Genres: Drama
Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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