Eroica
movie
The Day That Changed Music Forever
Released October 04, 2003
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.
Cast
Ian Hart
as
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jack Davenport
as
Prince Lobkowitz
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Peter Hanson
as
Wranitzky
Claire Skinner
as
Josephine Deym
Frank Finlay
as
Josef Haydn
Leo Bill
as
Reis
Trevor Cooper
as
Otto Fisher
Fenella Woolgar
as
Princess Marie Lobkowitz
Lucy Akhurst
as
Therese Brunsvik
Victoria Shalet
as
Kirsten
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Celina Liesegang
as
Stella
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Jacob Engelberg
as
Franz
