Eroica (1949 film)
- Ewald Balser: Ludwig van Beethoven
- Marianne Schönauer: Therese van Brunswick
- Judith Wood Master: Giulietta Guicciardi
- Oskar Werner Karl, Beethoven's nephew
- Dagny Servaes: Karl's mother
- Iván Petrovich: Prince Lichnowsky
- Ludmilla Hell: Princess Lichnovsky
- Auguste Pünkösdy: housekeeper
- Hans Kraßnitzer: Carl Amenda
- Alfred Neugebauer: organist Albrechtsberger
- Richard Eybner: Schuppanzigh
- Carl Günther: Country Doctor
- Gustav Waldau: Country Pastor
- Erik Frey: French officer
- Franz Pfaudler: theater director
- Julius Brandt: painter
- Hans shark: French officer
- Helmut Jana Czech: Austrian cavalry officer
- Karl Kalwoda: caretaker
Eroica is an Austrian film directed by Walter Kolm - Veltée from the year 1949. It deals with the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
Action
A mounted courier delivers on a ball of Prince Lichnowsky, the news that Napoleon Bonaparte is with his army on the march to Vienna. Like wildfire the news spread in the city and reached Beethoven, who sits with his friends in the pub. Beethoven is enthusiastic about the ideals which represents Napoleon after the French Revolution, and immediately rushes home to write a symphony Napoleon "of power, the size and glory" (later the " Eroica "). After the success of the symphony Beethoven gets a visit from two envoys of Napoleon, who call Beethoven to attend a reception of the emperor. The Emperor love the gloss, Beethoven gets exact dress code. Disappointed by the superficiality of his idol, Beethoven highlights the dedication from the title page of the symphony.
Beethoven traveled to Hungary and comes there under for his safety in his student Therese of Brunswik and their cousin Giulietta Guicciardi. Beethoven fell in love with Giulietta, which is even willing to give up her fiancé for Beethoven. Therese is of the opinion that it was not given by Beethoven his talent to enter into a fulfilling relationship with a woman.
Beethoven does not just worried about his nephew Karl, who leads his opinion, a dissolute life and is under the bad influence of his mother, but also notes with concern that his hearing forsakes him more and more. When Beethoven in God desperately wants to take him why this hearing, tells him his friend Carl Amenda, Beethoven should listen to this, a music that has never heard a man before. For Beethoven it is a depressing experience, as he notes in rehearsals for his opera " Fidelio" that the orchestra does not judge by his direction, but after the first bandmaster. Dejected, he goes home and at odds once again with God. But since Amendas him fall back on words, and as Therese looks after him, he can calm down, that he has come to terms with his fate, and now turns back to composing.
Reviews
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