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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.
DVD / Blu-ray
Jun 21, 2005
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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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Leo Bill
Reis
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Trevor Cooper
Otto Fisher
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Fenella Woolgar
Princess Marie Lobkowitz
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Lucy Akhurst
Therese Brunsvik
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Victoria Shalet
Kirsten
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Anton Lesser
Sukowaty
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Jonathan Aris
Paul Dorfmueller
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Tim Pigott-Smith
Count Dietrichstein
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Robert Glenister
Gerhardt
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Joseph Morgan
Matthias
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Ian Thompson
Albrecht Dorfmeuller
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Sarah Ford
Frau Fisher
