
Plot
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.
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Cast

Ian Hart
Ludwig van Beethoven

Jack Davenport
Prince Lobkowitz

Peter Hanson
Wranitzky

Claire Skinner
Josephine Deym

Frank Finlay
Josef Haydn

Leo Bill
Reis

Trevor Cooper
Otto Fisher

Fenella Woolgar
Princess Marie Lobkowitz

Lucy Akhurst
Therese Brunsvik

Victoria Shalet
Kirsten

Celina Liesegang
Stella

Jacob Engelberg
Franz

Anton Lesser
Sukowaty

Jonathan Aris
Paul Dorfmueller

Tim Pigott-Smith
Count Dietrichstein

Robert Glenister
Gerhardt

Joseph Morgan
Matthias

Ian Thompson
Albrecht Dorfmeuller