Dinner for Four Hands

Story

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Yuriy Topaler, Mikhail Kozakov

Writers

Mikhail Kozakov, Paul Barz

Language

Russian

Country

Russia

Release date

13 February 2000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Mikhail Kozakov

  George Frideric Handel

• 

  Evgeniy Steblov

  Johann Sebastian Bach

• Mikhail Kozakov, Jr

  Handel in childhood

• 

  Anatoli Grachyov

  Johann Christoph Schmidt