Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens

2020•1h 30m•6.5/10

DocumentaryHistory

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.5/10(4)

Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian proportions - full of intrigue, passion, depravity and corruption.

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Production

Gruppe 5, SWR, BR, ARTE, Česká televize

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Christoph Bach

Christoph Bach

Johannes Kepler

Heiko Pinkowski

Heiko Pinkowski

Tycho Brahe

Ben Janssen

Matthias Seiffart

Frederik Bott

Frans Tengnagel

Peter Brownbill

Peter Brownbill

Jeppe

Daniel Noël Fleischmann

Johannes Eriksen

Lena Drieschner

Barbara Kepler

Michael Sideris

Michael Sideris

Kaiser Rudolf

Susanne Weckerle

Kirsten Brahe

Vilmar Bieri

Vilmar Bieri

Kutscher

Frank Stöckle

Frank Stöckle

Narrator (voice)

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