Bach meets Frederick the Great (2003) - English subtitles

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This clip is from a 2003 movie named "Mein Name ist Bach" (My Name is Bach) which was a French/German/Swiss collaboration.

In 1747, Johann Sebastian Bach arrives in Potsdam for the baptism of his first grandchild. Frederick II of Prussia summons Bach to the castle that very evening. Determined to provoke the grand musician, he calls on him to improvise a fugue for six voices based on a tricky little melody of his own composition. Bach, exhausted by the journey and offended by the young king's arrogance, is reluctant to get involved. Thus the first act of hostilities between the King of Prussia and the maestro from Leipzig have begun.

Bach is played by Vadim Glowna (1941-2012) and Frederick by Jürgen Vogel (b. 1968). The clip appears approx. 13 minutes into part 1 (see below).

The music played at 1:53 - 2:51 by the King and his musicians is an excerpt of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Flute Concerto No. 3 in A Major / Wq 168 (3rd movement, Allegro assai). It is also known as a cello concerto in the same key (Wq 172). At 4:12 - 4:34 Bach plays the beginning of his Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor (BWV 903). At 5:28 - 5:37 he plays the beginning of his chorale setting "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring) from cantata 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life). The chromatic theme presented by the King at 6:25 - 6:39 (or rather played by Bach at 7:36 - 8:03 ...) formed the basis of Bach's Musical Offering (BWV 1079) in 16 movements.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382180/ (Internet Movie Database)
https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Movie/F0008.htm (Bach Cantatas Website)
https://cineuropa.org/en/film/30273/ (Cineuropa)
https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film733263.html (Filmaffinity)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Name_ist_Bach (German Wikipedia)

The movie is available in three parts (all with English subtitles):
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZkuZJedckA
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPG6e-ziTVs
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azJzQB2WG68

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) met the Prussian King Frederick II "the Great" (1712-1786) in May 1747. The meeting at the King's residence in Potsdam came about because Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel was employed there as court musician. Frederick wanted to show the elder Bach a novelty, the fortepiano, which had been invented some years earlier. The King owned several of the experimental instruments being developed by Gottfried Silbermann. During his visit, Bach, who was well known for his skill at improvising, received from Frederick a long and complex musical theme on which to improvise a three-voice fugue. He did so, but Frederick then challenged him to improvise a six-voice fugue on the same theme. Bach answered that he would need to work out the score and send it to the King afterwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Musical_Offering

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