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Eroica

7.5 89 mins Drama   Music   TV Movie   2003
Director(s): Simon Cellan Jones

Release Date: 04 Sat, Oct 2003

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.

Casts of Eroica

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

Leo Bill

as Reis

Trevor Cooper

as Otto Fisher

Fenella Woolgar

as Princess Marie Lobkowitz

Lucy Akhurst

as Therese Brunsvik

Victoria Shalet

as Kirsten

Celina Liesegang

as Stella

Jacob Engelberg

as Franz

Anton Lesser

as Sukowaty

Jonathan Aris

as Paul Dorfmueller

Tim Pigott-Smith

as Count Dietrichstein

Robert Glenister

as Gerhardt

Joseph Morgan

as Matthias

Ian Thompson

as Albrecht Dorfmeuller

Sarah Ford

as Frau Fisher

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