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.
Edgar Selge
as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Aenne Schwarz
as Aaltje Van De Meer
Lars Eidinger
as Pierre-Albert Delalandre
Michael Kranz
as Liebfried Cantor
Antonia Bill
as Königin Sophie Charlotte von Preußen
Barbara Sukowa
as Kurfürstin Sophie von Hannover
