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Eroica

52% | Oct 04, 2003 | Drama, Music, TV Movie

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.

Featured Crew

Simon Cellan Jones
Director
Barry Ackroyd
Director of Photography

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Ian Hart
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Jack Davenport
Prince Lobkowitz
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Peter Hanson
Wranitzky
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Claire Skinner
Josephine Deym
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Frank Finlay
Josef Haydn

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