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The life and death of the legendary Ludwig van Beethoven. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was. Not easy as Beethoven has had many women in his life. Written by
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The genius behind the music. The madness behind the man. The untold love story of Ludwig von Beethoven.
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Trivia
What Beethoven says to Schindler during their first meeting (a rehearsal of the Kreutzer sonata) is taken from Tolstoy's short story "The Kreutzer Sonata".
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Goofs
The producers of the film made painstaking effort to ensure that authentic late classical-era pianos were used on set, yet the music that is allegedly coming out of them is unmistakably from a 20th-centruy instrument.
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Quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven:
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
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Soundtracks
"Piano Sonata No. 14 (Quasi una fantasia) in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 'Mondschein (Moonlight)'"
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Not quite as dramatic as AMADEUS, to which there are obvious comparisons, it is a powerful film in its own right.
Taking the mysterious letter which Beethoven wrote to his "Immortal beloved" as the starting point, we follow his secretary's attempt to identify the person to whom the letter is addressed. No one knows, to this day, who that person really is, but the film offers an interesting theory.
The letter, however, is just a device to tell the story of the wild genius who personifies the Romantic movement in art. The letter serves much the same purpose as does Rosebud in CITIZEN KANE -- a method of stringing together a series of flashbacks that reveal the personality of the central figure.
The acting is wonderful and the music is powerful.