The First Straub and Huillet Project, conceived in the sixth decade of the previous century and based on years of research. As Straub wrote, Bach is one of the last figures in German history where intellect, art, and life were one. Classical harpsichord player Gustav Leonhardt performs Bach's compositions. Musicians dressed in period costumes play on historical instruments. Each performance is filmed in one take, leaving the original sound in places where Johann Sebastian Bach himself worked, composed music, and performed it. Highlights of the performers' appearances are the life story narrated by Anna Magdalena Bach. According to Straub: "The idea is to create a film in which music is not an accompaniment or commentary, but an aesthetic object." N-13 Film in German with Lithuanian subtitles.