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

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