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Apr 14, 2020
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Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens (2020)

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.

Category

Documentary History

Country

Germany

Companies

Gruppe 5 SWR BR ARTE Česká televize

Christoph Bach

Johannes Kepler

Heiko Pinkowski

Tycho Brahe

Ben Janssen

Matthias Seiffart

Frederik Bott

Frans Tengnagel

Peter Brownbill

Jeppe

Daniel Noël Fleischmann

Johannes Eriksen

Lena Drieschner

Barbara Kepler

Michael Sideris

Kaiser Rudolf

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