Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

105 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 19, 2025

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.

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

105 mins | Drama, History | Feb. 19, 2025

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers nordmedia, if... Productions, Edgar Reitz Film (ERF)
Original title Leibniz – Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes
Directors Johannes Fröhlich, Katrin Gombel, Anatol Schuster, Edgar Reitz
Writers Gert Heidenreich, Edgar Reitz

Cast

Edgar Selge

as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Aenne Schwarz

as Aaltje Van De Meer

Lars Eidinger

as Pierre-Albert Delalandre

Michael Kranz

as Liebfried Cantor

Antonia Bill

as Königin Sophie Charlotte von Preußen

Barbara Sukowa

as Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover