Gottfried leibniz biography youtube edgar

91-year-old German filmmaker Edgar Reitz, best known for the influential Heimat trilogy, has started shooting his latest film Leibniz, a portrait of leading Enlightenment thinker Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

A German polymath and one of the founders of calculus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was one of the most important thinkers of the late 17^th and early 18^th centuries.

Leibniz recounts five days in his life in the winter of 1704/05, when he is supposed to sit for a portrait painter at Herrenhausen Palace.

When the session fails, a young female painter from the Netherlands takes over. She sets herself the task of capturing his whole personality in the picture, with all its achievements and hidden fears, getting Leibniz to open up his soul to her.

Edgar Selge stars as Leibniz, with Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa, Aenne Schwarz, Antonia Bill and Michael Kranz in the other leading roles.

Salome Kammer and Matija Chlupacek, among others, appear in supporting roles.

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