Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Run time: 105 min
  • Premiere: 2025. September 18.

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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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

Art

Renate Schmaderer

Art Direction

Camera

Matthias Grunsky

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Esther Amuser

Costume Design

Birger Laube

Makeup & Hair

Germaine Mouth

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Edgar Reitz

Director

Anatol Schuster

Co-Director

Katrin Gombel

Script Supervisor

Johannes Fröhlich

Assistant Director

Editing

Anja Pohl

Editor

Johannes Schmidt

Assistant Editor

An Laphan

Colorist

Lighting

Chris Böck

Lighting Director

Production

Ingo Fliess

Producer

Sound

Thorsten Bolzé

Sound Recordist

Xavier Fleming

Sound Designer

Anders Wasserfall

Sound Mixer

Writing

Edgar Reitz

Writer

Art

Renate Schmaderer

Art Direction

Camera

Matthias Grunsky

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Esther Amuser

Costume Design

Birger Laube

Makeup & Hair

Germaine Mouth

Makeup & Hair

Directing

Edgar Reitz

Director

Anatol Schuster

Co-Director

Katrin Gombel

Script Supervisor

Johannes Fröhlich

Assistant Director

Editing

Anja Pohl

Editor

Johannes Schmidt

Assistant Editor

An Laphan

Colorist

Lighting

Chris Böck

Lighting Director

Production

Ingo Fliess

Producer

Sound

Thorsten Bolzé

Sound Recordist

Xavier Fleming

Sound Designer

Anders Wasserfall

Sound Mixer

Writing

Edgar Reitz

Writer