
Plot
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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Cast

Devid Striesow
Johann Sebastian Bach

Verena Altenberger
Anna Magdalena Bach

Ludwig Simon
Emanuel Bach

Dominic Marcus Singer
Friedemann Bach

German von Beug
Gottfried Bach

Lotta Herzog
Elisabeth Bach

Thorsten Merten
Adrian Stieglitz

Christina Große
Maria Stieglitz

Victor Tahal
Christian Henrici

Christoph Luser
Superintendent

Dominik Weber
Court Music Director Hasse

Luise Aschenbrenner
Sybilla Bose

Daniel Christensen
Matthias Gesner

Felix Hellmann
Carl Gotthelf Gerlach

Sebastian Thiers
Beadle

Leopold Görsch
Thomaner Singer

Markus Schramm
Landlord

Sebastian Kowski
Tree Seller

Felix Rank
Secretary

Jürgen Haase
Stagecoach Carter

Aimée Straub
Maid

Felix Oitzinger
Nephew 1 (uncredited)

Alois Kreuzwieser
Advocate (uncredited)