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WRITTEN BY MRS BACH: BROKEN SILENCE
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Completed - ENGLISH - Art - Culture, Documentary - 83 minutes

Log Line

An investigation into whether some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most famous works might actually have been composed by his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2018 (Debut)
  • FILMART 2018 (Line up)
  • Cannes 2018 (Line up)
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Year of production : 2017

Director(s) : Alex MCCALL
Cast : Martin JARVIS, Myleene KLASS, Sally BEAMISH, Heidi ELFRIEDE, Paige REDMOND, Yannick BORZYNSKI

Producer(s) : Pamela KAUFMAN

Synopsis

Did Johann Sebastian Bach compose all of his best loved works? Or was the real maestro his second wife, Anna Magdalena? Shaking the classical world to the core, Professor Martin Jarvis has spent over 30 years in a quest to uncover the truth, for the first time using forensic science to determine who really penned the manuscripts. Despite ferocious resistance from the Bach orthodoxy, he exposes the centuries-old conspiracy to silence the genius of women composers…

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Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM


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