Eroica (2003)
1h 29m
Running Time
October 4, 2003Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Ian Hart
Ludwig van Beethoven

Jack Davenport
Prince Lobkowitz

Peter Hanson
Wranitzky

Claire Skinner
Josephine Deym

Frank Finlay
Josef Haydn

Leo Bill
Reis

Trevor Cooper
Otto Fisher

Sarah Ford
Frau Fisher

Fenella Woolgar
Princess Marie Lobkowitz

Lucy Akhurst
Therese Brunsvik

Victoria Shalet
Kirsten

Celina Liesegang
Stella

Jacob Engelberg
Franz

Anton Lesser
Sukowaty

Nick Dear
Writer

Liza Marshall
Producer
Media.

Details.
This Movie Is About.
classical music
Wiki.
Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatised the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carried the tagline 'The day that changed music forever'.
The film was directed by Simon Cellan Jones and was written by Nick Dear. Ian Hart starred as the composer, with Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser, and Frank Finlay along with Jack Davenport and Claire Skinner leading the cast. The music was played by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. It won the Prix Italia for Performing Arts in 2004.
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