Eroica
Release Date: 2003-10-04
Overview: 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.
Rating: 7 / 10
Cast
Ian Hart
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Jack Davenport
as Prince Lobkowitz
Peter Hanson
as Wranitzky
Claire Skinner
as Josephine Deym
Frank Finlay
as Josef Haydn
Crew
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Simon Cellan Jones - Director
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Barry Ackroyd - Director of Photography
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