Ludwig van beethoven biography movies
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Louis van Beethoven (film)
Germany, Czech Republic, Austria film
Louis van Beethoven is a international co-production biographical film[1] released at the th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. The movie shows the story of the world-famous composer from different perspectives. The title shows the name that was used in his youth.[2]
Plot
[edit]The film moves back and forth between Beethoven's final year and his early life in Bonn. The Beethoven we meet as an adult (Tobias Moretti) has long been deaf. He has come to his brother Johann's home in Gneixendorf along with their nephew Karl (Peter Lewys Preston&#;[de]) after Karl's attempted suicide. There Louis is in constant battle with everyone around him. This is the background that leads to memories of his earlier life.
As a child in Bonn, Louis (Colin Pütz) was a musical prodigy. He is pushed by his father, who has dreams of him being a new Mozart. Through his father's connections as a singer i
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In this article we will discover all the movies that were produced about Beethoven, the composer. Almost every decade since the s had a Beethoven movie and in this post we will review them all.
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Since the dawn of humanity we like stories and especially stories about heroes. Beethoven was a hero, no wonder that this giant captures the imagination of artists and as such movie makers were drawn to him, too. In all these movies there is a recurring motive and this is the motive of the tragic hero. In these plots Beethoven fryst vatten a tortured man. He&#;s often ill, always anxious about money issues and unlucky in love. Above all,
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Beethoven in film
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven has been the subject of a number of biographical films.
List of films
[edit]A now-lost French silent film called Beethoven was mentioned in the press in January , and there were at least a further six silent films about Beethoven before [1]
The Life of Beethoven (German: Das Leben des Beethoven) is a Austrian silentdrama film directed by Hans Otto and starring Fritz Kortner as Beethoven.[citation needed]
Un grand amour de Beethoven was directed in by Abel Gance; it stars Harry Baur.
Albert Bassermann portrayed Beethoven in the film The Great Awakening.
Steven Geray portrayed Beethoven in the short film Heavenly Music ().
Eroica is a Austrian film depicting the life and works of Beethoven (Ewald Balser). It was entered into the Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film is directed by Walter Kolm-Veltée, produced by Guido Bagier with Walter Kolm-Veltée and written by Walter Kolm-