Immortal Beloved (1994)
Immortal Beloved (1994)
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Cast
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Anton Felix Schindler
as Anna Marie Erdody
as Johanna Reiss
as Karl van Beethoven
as Nanette Streicher
as Clemens Metternich
as Giulietta Guicciardi
as Franz Josef Guicciardi
as Young Karl van Beethoven
as Young Ludwig Van Beethoven
as Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven
as Franz Josef Guicciardi
as Casper Anton Karl Van Beethoven
as Therese Obermayer
as Theresa von Brunsvik
as Jakob Hotscevar
as Karl Holz
as Jacob Raicz
as Josephine von Brunswick
as Thin Man
as Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg
as Joseph Deym
as Johann Van Beethoven
as George Bridgtower
as Marie Frolich
as Elector Max Friedrich
as Lilo Braun
as Custody Policeman
as Magistrate
as Ignaz Schuppanzigh
as Suzanna Guicciardi
as Zoltan
as Fritzi Erdody
as Mimi Erdody
as August Erdody
as Country Policeman
as Erdody Servant
as Artillery Captain
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Critic Reviews for Immortal Beloved
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Rose's Beethoven biopic is something of a Europudding, a stodgy concoction of clashing accents and performance styles.
I doubet whether Rose's speculative and overwroght chronicle of Beethoven will rekindle interest in the composer's life and work in the same way that Amadeus did for Mozart.
A little slow, but overall a good film.
completely nuts!
Imitation Ken Russell biopic lacking in power and a feel for the music.
As writer and director, Bernard Rose must take full responsibility for the fictions masquerading as fact in his treatment of Beethoven's life and loves.
Audience Reviews for Immortal Beloved
Gary Oldman is absolutely phenomenal here as Ludwig van Beethoven but the supporting cast is a bit overacted or sometimes wooden and fake. The film itself is a little confusing and slow but it's easy to forget that when you're wrapped up in the mystery, and when watching Oldman give a tour de force performance, and listening to the magnificent music of Beethoven.
Super Reviewer
Immortal Beloved is an incredible biopic about one of the most famed composers who ever lived. Gary Oldman is the perfect choice to play composer Ludwig Van Beethoven. He brought such charisma to his performance that it's a shame he didn't win an Oscar. I thought he was excellent in the role. Immortal Beloved is a well crafted picture that focuses on the life of Beethoven, and with Gary Oldman's incredible performance, it adds so much to this already impressive film. Whenever a filmmaker decides to tells an artists story on film, it can be either bad or goo. But like Amadeus before it, Immortal Beloved has the distinction of being an incredible and memorable film about another famous composer. The film is different than Amadeus, but it still manages to be just as grand as that film was. Because after all, Beethoven wasn't a forgettable person. Director Bernard Rose did a fine job at bringing Beethoven's life to the screen, and with this cast; he's able to convey a near flawless piece of cinema to the screen. Immortal Beloved is a beautifully acted and told film that has a wonderful story. This is a film for people who admire Beethoven and for Classical music fans everywhere. As of yet, this is the best biopic on Beethoven's life that I have seen, and with Gary Oldman in the lead role, it will be very hard to find someone to outdo his performance. A truly engaging picture.
Super Reviewer
How to depict "genius"? Yes, there are the achievements ... but why? This movie goes with love as the motivating factor that drove perhaps the world's most renowned composer, the Einstein of music, Beethoven. Oldman, no slouch artist himself, is magnetic as a soul slowly losing that which is most to him in this captivating mystery that attempts to define the undefinable. A worthy effort.
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Immortal Beloved Quotes
| Ludwig van Beethoven: | [startled to discover he has been tricked into playing piano for people observing him behind the wall] It is terrible, terrible for you to rob me in this way of my most treasured feelings! |
| Ludwig van Beethoven: | [completely deaf, he is watching musicians perform his "Kreutzer" violin sonata] I can't hear them, but I know that they are making a hash of it. |
| Ludwig van Beethoven: | [completely deaf, he is watching musicians perform his 'Kreutzer' violin sonata] I can't hear them, but I know that they are making a hash of it. |
| Ludwig van Beethoven: | [Miss Guiccardi's first piano lesson. She is playing, poorly, a little minuet. She errs, and begins pounding on the keyboard, perhaps to gets some kind of reaction from Beethoven. He says nothing until he realizes she has stopped. He gives his critique] You think that because I do not stop you, that I am not listening... [She sighs in agreeance].. The manner in which you thump out the notes without the slightest thought as to their meaning is unforgivable. And your lack of passion is unforgivable. I shall have to beat you. [she offers her hand for punishment, rolling her eyes. He gives her a hard, painful slap] |
| Ludwig van Beethoven: | [Miss Guiccardi's first piano lesson. She is playing, poorly, a little minuet. She errs, and begins pounding on the keyboard, perhaps to gets some kind of reaction from Beethoven. He says nothing until he realizes she has stopped. He gives his critique] You think that because I do not stop you, that I am not listening. [She sighs in agreeance] The manner in which you thump out the notes without the slightest thought as to their meaning is unforgivable. And your lack of passion is unforgivable. I shall have to beat you. [she offers her hand for punishment, rolling her eyes. He gives her a hard, painful slap] |
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