Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

2025Directed by Edgar Reitz

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Released: September 18, 2025
Runtime: 1h 45m

About Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting

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Synopsis

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.

Director: Edgar Reitz
Writers: Edgar Reitz
Gert Heidenreich
Original title: Leibniz - Chronik eines verschollenen Bildes

Principal cast

In billing order

Edgar SelgeGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Aenne SchwarzAaltje Van De Meer
Lars EidingerPierre-Albert Delalandre
Michael KranzLiebfried Cantor
Antonia BillKönigin Sophie Charlotte von Preußen
Barbara SukowaKurfürstin Sophie von Hannover

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