A film about people, values and cultures - and the music and magic of JS Bach, which has an impact around the globe.
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff – Passion and Rebellion
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff was a rebel with a brush, an outsider in the artists' group Die Brücke and a revolutionary of colour. Inspired by Fauvism, he broke through boundaries and created works full of expressive power.
Aris Kalaizis
schmidtFilm accompanies Aris Kalaizis, Leipzig painter with Greek roots, for a portrait for MDR and the ARD Mediathek.
Heinrich Schütz – founder of German Baroque music
While the 30-year war rages around him, the plague rages and a small ice age destroys the harvests, the German composer Heinrich Schütz writes the soundtrack of his time.
