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.
- Genre: Drama, History
- Studio: if... Productions, nordmedia, Edgar Reitz Film (ERF)
- Keyword: philosophy, based on true story, portrait drawing
- Cast: Edgar Selge, Barbara Sukowa, Lars Eidinger, Aenne Schwarz, Michael Kranz, Antonia Bill