

30/10/2024
Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children Gottfried and Elisabeth are delighted about the arrival of their older brothers Friedemann and Emanuel. The Thomaskantor has retired to his music room. Anna Magdalena supports her husband, as there are only a few days left and his latest work, the six-part "Christmas Oratorio", must be finished on time. It is awaited with suspicion by the city council and the gentlemen of the consistory, who have long found Bach's waywardness a thorn in their side and fear that, after the premiere of the St. Matthew Passion a few years earlier, the St. Thomas Church will once again be filled with "operatic" music. With the oratorio, Johann Sebastian Bach hopes that he will finally become court composer in Dresden. And, as always, he demands that all members of the family join forces to help him. But differences of opinion are increasingly delaying the completion of Bach's most famous work.

Devid Striesow
as Johann Sebastian Bach

Verena Altenberger
as Anna Magdalena Bach

Ludwig Simon
as Emanuel Bach

Dominic Marcus Singer
as Friedemann Bach

German von Beug
as Gottfried Bach

Lotta Herzog
as Elisabeth Bach

Thorsten Merten
as Adrian Stieglitz

Christina Große
as Maria Stieglitz

Victor Tahal
as Christian Henrici

Christoph Luser
as Superintendent

Dominik Weber
as Court Music Director Hasse

Luise Aschenbrenner
as Sybilla Bose

Daniel Christensen
as Matthias Gesner

Felix Hellmann
as Carl Gotthelf Gerlach

Sebastian Thiers
as Beadle

Leopold Görsch
as Thomaner Singer

Markus Schramm
as Landlord

Sebastian Kowski
as Tree Seller

Felix Rank
as Secretary

Jürgen Haase
as Stagecoach Carter

Aimée Straub
as Maid

Felix Oitzinger
as Nephew 1 (uncredited)

Alois Kreuzwieser
as Advocate (uncredited)
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