Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025)
September 18, 2025
Drama, History
1h 45m


Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. 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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Edgar Reitz
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Edgar Selge
- Aaltje Van De Meer Aenne Schwarz
- Pierre-Albert Delalandre Lars Eidinger
- Liebfried Cantor Michael Kranz
- Königin Sophie Charlotte von Preußen Antonia Bill
- Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover Barbara Sukowa
Keywords
- philosophy
- based on true story
- portrait drawing