MY NAME IS BACH
synopsis
In 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach arrives in Potsdam for the baptism of his first grandchild. Frederick II of Prussia summons Bach to the castle that very evening. Determined to provoke the grand musician, he calls on him to improvise a fugue for six voices based on a tricky little melody of his own composition. Bach, exhausted by the journey and offended by the young king's arrogance, is reluctant to get involved. Thus the first act of hostilities between the King of Prussia and the maestro from Leipzig have begun...
| international title: | My Name Is Bach |
| original title: | Mein name ist Bach |
| country: | Switzerland, Germany, France |
| sales agent: | Global Screen GmbH (a brand of Telepool GmbH) |
| year: | 2003 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Dominique de Rivaz |
| film run: | 97' |
| release date: | CH 26/09/2003 |
| screenplay: | Dominique de Rivaz, Jean-Luc Bourgeois, Leo Raat |
| cast: | Vadim Glowna, Jürgen Vogel, Bernard Liegme, Gilles Tschudi |
| cinematography by: | Ciro Cappellari |
| film editing: | Isabel Meier |
| art director: | Lothar Holler |
| costumes designer: | Britta Krähe, Regina Tiedeken, Friederike von Wedel-Parlow |
| music: | Frédéric Devreese |
| producer: | Karl Baumgartner, Uta Ganschow, Thanassis Karathanos, Jean-Louis Porchet, Gérard Ruey |
| production: | CAB Productions, Pandora Filmproduktion, Twenty Twenty Vision, Télévision Suisse Romande (CH), WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (DE), ARTE (FR) |
| distributor: | JMH Distribution |
