Bach - Ein Weihnachtswunder

Bach - Ein Weihnachtswunder is a 2024 German TV movie set in Leipzig in December 1734, where Johann Sebastian Bach has days left to finish his six-part Christmas Oratorio while the city council and consistory wait to object to anything that sounds too operatic for St. Thomas Church. The plot keeps to the household: the older sons arriving for the holidays, Anna Magdalena holding the family together, and Bach counting on the finished work to land him the court composer post in Dresden. Verena Altenberger is the name on the cast list that matters here, and the archive holds 2 scenes from the film, which given the period setting and the church politics are on the modest side, nothing close to a sex scene.