Dinner for Four Hands

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.

Cast

Mikhail Kozakov

George Frideric Handel

Evgeniy Steblov

Johann Sebastian Bach

M

Mikhail Kozakov, Jr

Handel in childhood

Anatoli Grachyov

Johann Christoph Schmidt