Jagged Harmonies

by Dominique de Rivaz

May 1747, the old Johann Sebastian Bach meets the young king Friedrich II. The two baroque celebrities experience together a week full of amusing and also painful father-son-conflicts. A fight of the titans, that leads to a funny chaos in the family Bach as well as in the castle of Potsdam.

Germany / Switzerland 2003, 99 min.

Actor / Actress	Character
Vadim Glowana	Johann Sebastian Bach
Jürgen Vogel	Friedrich II
Karoline Herfurth	Prinzessin Amalie
Anatole Taubman	Friedemann Bach
Paul Herwig	Emanuel Bach
Antje Westermann	Johanna Bach
Bernard Liegme	Dumb Footman
Gilles Tschudi	Secretary Goltz
Philippe Vuilleumier	Professor Quantz

Director	Dominique de Rivaz
Script	Dominique de Rivaz
	Jean-Luc Bourgeois
	Leo Raat
Producer	Thanassis Karathanos
	Karl Baumgartner
	Gérard Ruey
	Uta Ganschow
	Jean-Luis Porchet

Production	TWENTY TWENTY VISION
	PANDORA FILMPRODUKTION
	CAB PRODUCTIONS SA
in co-produktion with	WESTDEUTSCHER RUNDFUNK (WDR)
	TÉLÉVISION SUISSE ROMABDE (TSR)
	SRG SSR IDÉE SUISSE
	ARTE
supported by	Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen
	MDM
	Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg
	Bundesamt für Kultur (EDI) Schweiz
	Kulturfonds Suissimage
	Kanton Bern
	Stadt Bern – Abteilung für Kultur
	Canton du Valais
	Fondation Leenaards
	Succès Cinéma
	Fonds Regio Films
Distributor	Pegasos Film
World Sales	BAVARIA FILM INTERNATIONAL
Director of Photography	Ciro Capellari
Editor	Isabelle Meyer
Re-recording Mixer	Francois Musy
	Gabriel Hafner
Art Direction	Lother Holler
Music	Frederic Devreese

International Premiere:

08.08.2003, 56. Int. Filmfestival Locarno / Piazza Grande

Festivals / Preise (selection):

Swiss Film award 2004

– First Prize for Fiction Film

– Best Supporting Actor, Gilles Tschudi

Selected to represent Switzerland at the Oscars for in the kategory Foreign-Language Award, 2005

8. Festival des deutschen Films in Paris, 2003

Talinn Black Nights, 2003

Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, 2004

International Filmfestival Mar del Plata / Competition, 2004

Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, 2004

Festival International du film d’Amour de Mons, 2004

Seattle International Film Festival / Competition, 2004

Shanghai International Film Festival / Panorama, 2004

International Film Festival in Sochi /Competition, 2004