Eroica (2003)
Starring Ian Hart, Jack Davenport, Peter Hanson
Directed by Simon Cellan Jones
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Runtime: 89 min.
Rating: 5.376
DVD
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Genres: Drama,Music,TV Movie
Keywords: classical music
Cast
Ludwig van Beethoven
Prince Lobkowitz
Wranitzky
Josephine Deym
Josef Haydn
Reis
Otto Fisher
Princess Marie Lobkowitz
Therese Brunsvik
Kirsten
Stella
Franz
Sukowaty
Paul Dorfmueller
Count Dietrichstein
Gerhardt
Matthias
Albrecht Dorfmeuller