

Bach - A Christmas Miracle
2024-10-30 · 90 min · ★ 6.5
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.
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- Directors
- Florian Baxmeyer
- Production companies
- Epo-Film, MDR, BR, ORF, Sächsische Landesanstalt für privaten Rundfunk und neue Medien, Austrian Business Agency (ABA), Fernsehfonds Austria, Kulturland Niederösterreich, KD-Bank-Stiftung, ARD, ARD Degeto, Eikon Media
- Countries
- Austria, Germany
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Devid StriesowJohann Sebastian Bach
Verena AltenbergerAnna Magdalena Bach
Ludwig SimonEmanuel Bach
Dominic Marcus SingerFriedemann Bach
Lotta HerzogElisabeth Bach
Thorsten MertenAdrian Stieglitz
Christina GroßeMaria Stieglitz
Christoph LuserSuperintendent
Dominik WeberCourt Music Director Hasse
Luise AschenbrennerSybilla Bose
Daniel ChristensenMatthias Gesner
Felix HellmannCarl Gotthelf Gerlach
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