Screenplay:
Axel EngstfeldPlots(1)
During the 1790s French Revolution, the (still royal) academy of science sanctions a project to create the metric system of universal measures on natural foundations, to substitute the chaotic feudal tradition of local and regional arbitrary measures. A key measure, for length, is to be the meter, defined as 1/10.000 of the meridian from equator to Northpole. A scientific expedition was to determine the exact length of the part of the one that goes trough Barcelona, Rodez and Paris by old-fashioned triangulation. Despite new advanced measuring equipment, the landscape and especially political circumstances, both wars and French internal regime brutality, make it a 9 year nightmare for the two scientists, who started from opposite sides. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Jürg Löw](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/370/160370031_4ef696.jpg)
Jürg Löw (narrator)
Switzerland
Best movies:
Toni Erdmann (2016)
The Seventh Little Brother (1991)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
![Jan Antonín Duchoslav](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/164/142/164142084_c95266.png)
Jan Antonín Duchoslav
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Snowdrops and Aces (1982)
Sweet Worries (1984)
Horror Story (1993)