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Beethoven's Great Love

Country: France, Language: French, 116 mins

Original Title

Un Grand Amour de Beethoven
  • Director: Abel Gance
  • Writer: Abel Gance; Steve Passeur

CGiii Comment

1801, in Vienna, two young women, his pupils, are in love with him. Thérèse de Brunswick's love remains unrequited even though she and Beethoven are engaged for years; Juliette Guicciardi, whom Beethoven loves but who marries a count, regrets that decision, but by then he and Thérèse are engaged. When Beethoven loses Juliette, he moves to the mill at Heiligenstadt; realizing he's becoming deaf, profound depression sets in. He rejects suicide, holding on to remembered sound and to his work, a dedication assisted by Thérèse and others. In later years, we see his devotion to an ungrateful and thieving nephew, his poverty, the isolation of deafness, and the love of friends.


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Cast & Characters

Harry Baur as Ludwig Van Beethoven;
Annie Ducaux as Therese of Brunswick;
Jany Holt as Juliette Guicciardi;
Andre Nox as Humpholz;
Jane Marken as Esther Frechet, cook;
Lucas Gridoux as Smeskall;
Paul Pauley as Schuppanzigh;
Lucien Rozenberg as Comte Guicciardi;
Yolande Laffon as Countess Guicciardi;
Jean Debucourt as Count Robert Gallenberg;
Jean-Louis Barrault as Karl Van Beethoven;
Georges Paulais; Georges Saillard;
Jean Paqui as Pierrot;
Philippe Richard