Eroica

APPROPIATE

2003 / 89min.

Rating5.2

Genres

Drama

Music

TV Movie

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Joseph Morgan

Jonathan Aris

Ian Hart

Fenella Woolgar

Jack Davenport

Anton Lesser

Frank Finlay

Robert Glenister

Claire Skinner

Trevor Cooper

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