Overview

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.

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Cast

Edgar Selge

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Aenne Schwarz

Aaltje Van De Meer

Lars Eidinger

Pierre-Albert Delalandre

Michael Kranz

Liebfried Cantor

Antonia Bill

Königin Sophie Charlotte von Preußen

Barbara Sukowa

Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover