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20031h 29m

English

Eroica

Name: Eroica
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
Genre: Drama, Music, TV Movie
Released: 2003-10-04
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Ian Hart, Jack Davenport, Peter Hanson, Claire Skinner, Frank Finlay

The Day That Changed Music Forever

7.7/10^*

7.3

TMDb

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.

DirectorSimon Cellan Jones