Mein Name ist Bach

Jagged Harmonies - Bach vs. Frederick II

Everyone knows Johann Sebastian Bach. Everyone knows Frederick the Great of Prussia. But hardly anyone knows they met... During one week in May 1747, the King of Music and the King of Prussia come together: two worlds that intersect in a sparkling counterpoint of awe and envy, hope and disillusion.

Visiting one of his sons in Potsdam, Bach is ordered to the royal court, where he meets the brilliant, gifted young monarch who acknowledges genius in others yet cannot bear to have it overshadow his own. The faithful court composer Quantz has accepted these limits, but not the king′s lively and talented young sister Amalia, who yearns for freedom – and burns with passion for Bach′s defiant eldest son. As Bach′s visit unfolds, genius and power strip themselves of convention and engage in a spirited, sensual battle of egos accompanied by the jagged harmonies and soulful dissonances of an inner music.
"Jagged Harmonies" is an intense portrait of two larger-than-life personalities – Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great. Inspired by a true occurrence, the film relates the tempestuous encounter of a musician and a king, of a father and a son.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH