Dinner for Four Hands

Dinner for Four Hands

2000 · 89 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, TV Movie

Leipzig, 1747. Handel, the darling of the public and the powerful, invites Bach, the cantor of St. Thomas Church and the father of twenty children, who has just been admitted to the “Society of Musical Sciences,” to dinner at a hotel. The aggressive tone of the first minutes of this meeting grows into mutual understanding between two aging and increasingly blind composers — wise, lonely, and equally unhappy.

Directed by Mikhail Kozakov

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Mikhail Kozakov George Frideric Handel
Evgeniy Steblov Johann Sebastian Bach
Mikhail Kozakov, Jr Handel in childhood
Anatoli Grachyov Johann Christoph Schmidt

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