Great philosopher and intellectual Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz is painted on behalf of Electress Sophie of Hanover. 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.

• if... Productions
• nordmedia
• Edgar Selge
• Barbara Sukowa
• Lars Eidinger
• Aenne Schwarz
• Michael Kranz
• Antonia Bill