Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens

90 mins | Documentary, History | April 14, 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.

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens

90 mins | Documentary, History | April 14, 2020

Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
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.
Producers Südwestrundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Česká televize, ARTE, Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion
Original title Johannes Kepler – Der Himmelstürmer
Directors Christian Twente
Writers Susanne Utzt

Cast

Christoph Bach

as Johannes Kepler

Heiko Pinkowski

as Tycho Brahe

Ben Janssen

as Matthias Seiffart

Frederik Bott

as Frans Tengnagel

Peter Brownbill

as Jeppe

Daniel Noël Fleischmann

as Johannes Eriksen

Lena Drieschner

as Barbara Kepler

Michael Sideris

as Kaiser Rudolf

Susanne Weckerle

as Kirsten Brahe

Vilmar Bieri

as Kutscher

Frank Stöckle

as Narrator (voice)