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Copying Beethoven
- Director: Agnieszka Holland
- Writer: Stephen J. Rivele; Christopher Wilkinson
- Producer: Ernst Goldschmidt; Marina Grasic
CGiii Comment
These writers should never write again.
This clunker of a film should be scrubbed from Holland's portfolio - she who made the exceptional Europa Europa. Alas, all directors make a pitiful film.
The accents are so utterly obtrusive - and, Beethoven's deafness (miraculously) comes and goes.
A beautifully photographed, expensive disaster.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work's debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven's life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.
Cast & Characters
Diane Kruger as Anna Holtz;
Ralph Riach as Wenzel Schlemmer;
Matyelok Gibbs as Old Woman;
Ed Harris as Ludwig van Beethoven;
Bill Stewart as Rudy;
Angus Barnett as Krenski;
Viktoria Dihen as Magda;
Phyllida Law as Mother Canisius;
Matthew Goode as Martin Bauer;
Gabor Bohus as Schuppanzigh;
Joe Anderson as Karl van Beethoven;
David Kennedy as Neighbor;
Nicholas Jones as Archduke Rudolph;
Laszlo Aron as Judge;
Karl Johnson as Stefan Holtz