Eroica

89 minutes

10/4/2003

Overview

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.

Cast List

Ian Hart
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Jack Davenport
as Prince Lobkowitz
Peter Hanson
as Wranitzky
Claire Skinner
as Josephine Deym
Frank Finlay
as Josef Haydn
Leo Bill
as Reis
Trevor Cooper
as Otto Fisher
Fenella Woolgar
as Princess Marie Lobkowitz
Lucy Akhurst
as Therese Brunsvik
Victoria Shalet
as Kirsten
Celina Liesegang
as Stella
Jacob Engelberg
as Franz
Anton Lesser
as Sukowaty
Jonathan Aris
as Paul Dorfmueller
Tim Pigott-Smith
as Count Dietrichstein
Robert Glenister
as Gerhardt
Joseph Morgan
as Matthias
Ian Thompson
as Albrecht Dorfmeuller
Sarah Ford
as Frau Fisher