Friedemann Bach

Deutschland 1940/1941 Spielfilm

Friedemann Bach, the eldest son of the famous Johann Sebastian, is highly gifted, but cannot develop his talent in the shadow of his overbearing father. After a promising debut at the Saxon court, he falls in love with a dancer and composes a ballet for her. But due to the intrigue of another woman he has to leave Dresden. Further failures and humiliations turn the desperate man into a cheat: he passes off a composition by his father as his own. Unstable and without friends, he roams the streets with other musicians. When he tries to defend the name of his father, he is killed in a quarrel.

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Shoot

    • 14.10.1940 - Februar 1941: Ufastadt Babelsberg
Duration:
2784 m, 102 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 20.06.1941, B.55485, Jugendfrei ab 14 Jahre

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.06.1941, Dresden, Universum;
Erstaufführung: 16.07.1941, Berlin, Capitol

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  • Originaltitel (DE) Friedemann Bach

Versions

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
100 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:1,37
Video/Audio:
s/w, 5.1

Original

Duration:
2784 m, 102 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Tobis-Klangfilm
Censorship/Age rating:

Zensur (DE): 20.06.1941, B.55485, Jugendfrei ab 14 Jahre

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.06.1941, Dresden, Universum;
Erstaufführung: 16.07.1941, Berlin, Capitol

Prüffassung

Duration:
2723 m, 99 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,33
Video/Audio:
s/w, Mono
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 02.09.1952, 04711, Jugendgeeignet / feiertagsfrei

Awards

1941
  • Prädikat: Kulturell wertvoll
  • Prädikat: Künstlerisch wertvoll