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Storyline:

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.

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