My name is bach
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | My name is bach |
| Country of production | Germany , Switzerland , France |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominique de Rivaz |
| script |
Jean-Luc Bourgeois Leo Raat Dominique de Rivaz |
| production |
Karl Baumgartner Uta Ganschow Thanassis Karathanos Jean-Louis Porchet Gérard Ruey |
| music | Frédéric Devreese |
| camera | Ciro Cappellari |
| cut | Isabel Meier |
| occupation | |
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My name is Bach is a feature film from 2003. The world premiere took place within the framework of the 56th Festival internazionale del film Locarno, which was held from August 6 to August 16, 2003 .
At the center of the plot of the German-French-Swiss co-production is the meeting between the Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the Prussian King Friedrich II in 1747. At this meeting, Friedrich II inspired Bach to compose the musical with his own theme Sacrifice .
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On the occasion of the birth of his grandchild Adam, Johann Sebastian Bach , whose eyesight is dwindling, visits his son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , who is employed at the court of the Prussian King Friedrich II .
The warring king wants to put the composer to the test and gives him a theme for improvisation, which he had his flute teacher Johann Joachim Quantz , who also teaches Friedrich's sister Amalie, refined. The brook, exhausted by the journey, asks, however, that he be given time. At court he meets his old friend Quantz again. Bach immediately returns to Leipzig, where he feels more comfortable, but is still fascinated by the subject posed by the king.
While Amalie takes a liking to the novelty of the music of Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , King Friedrich is reminded of the humiliation by his father Friedrich Wilhelm I (for example, after an attempted escape by his adolescent son and his childhood friend, Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte , have this executed). The non-conformist Wilhelm Friedemann, on the other hand, whom Bach considers the most talented of his sons, lives in conflict with the cautious down-to-earth attitude of his brother, who in turn suffers from the favoredness of Wilhelm Friedemann by his father.
Bach organizes a concert in honor of the king and performs it when both play a composition based on the theme of the king in a duet and Friedrich gets out of time. The king reacts angrily and accuses Quantz of being in league with Bach. However, Bach does not leave the theme of the king alone, and so he composes a six-part canon based on this theme, the Musical Offering .
Amalie resists her brother Friedrich's reprimands when he learns that she has had an affair with Wilhelm Friedemann. Amalie wants to continue the relationship, but Wilhelm Friedemann refuses to take her to Halle because he cannot offer her a life there that is appropriate for a princess.
Friedrich, who is about to move to his “ Sanssouci ” palace in Potsdam, asks Bach to become his court composer. Bach refuses. Nevertheless, the two of them have a more personal conversation in which Friedrich tells the musician about his father's humiliations in his childhood, while Bach accuses himself of failing to raise his quarreling sons.
When Frederick II Voltaire wanted to travel to Sanssouci, Bach got into the carriage at the customs station in his place.
Trivia
When Bach and Friedrich talk in the Potsdam City Palace, while furniture and paintings are being carried out in front of them for the move to Sanssouci, Adolph von Menzel's “ Flute Concerto of Frederick the Great in Sanssouci ” is also carried past in the background in an over-the-shoulder shot , which, however, was not made until a hundred years later.
Awards
In 2004 the film won the Swiss Film Awards in the categories of “ Best Feature Film ” and “ Best Supporting Role ” ( Gilles Tschudi ); There was a nomination, also in the category “Best Supporting Role”, for Anatole Taubman .
Reviews
“The opulently furnished costume film neglects historical correctness in favor of its exalted characters, whereby the young king has a certain paranoid trait. Ultimately, character outlines and descriptions of behavior remain rather fragmentary, the interior views of the characters are only hinted at. "
Web links
- My name is Bach in the Internet Movie Database (English)