Beethoven's Great Love
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Running time | 135 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Beethoven's Great Love (French: Un grand amour de Beethoven is a 1936 French
drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt.[1][2] It portrays the career of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Britain and the United States it was sometimes alternatively titled
The Life and Loves of Beethoven.
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Cast
- Harry Baur as Ludwig van Beethoven
- Annie Ducaux as Thérèse de Brunswick
- Jany Holt as Juliette Guicciardi
- Jean-Louis Barrault as Karl van Beethoven
- Jean Debucourt as Le comte Robert Gallenberg
- André Nox as Humpholz
- Gaston Dubosc as Anton Schindler
- Sylvie Gance as La mère de l'enfant mort
- Georges Paulais as Le médecin
- Georges Saillard as Breuning
- Jean Pâquias Pierrot
- Jane Marken as Esther Frechet - la cuisinière
- Marcel Dalio as L'éditeur Steiner
- André Bertic as Johann van Beethoven
- Roger Blin as de Ries
- Dalméras as Franz Schubert
- Lucas Gridoux as Nikolaus Zmeskall
- Yolande Laffon as La comtesse Guicciardi
- Lucien Rozenberg as Le comte Guicciardi
- Paul Pauley as Schuppanzigh
See also
References
- ^ King p.243
- ISBN 978-0-7566-2259-6.
Bibliography
- King, Norman. Abel Gance: A Politics of Spectacle. Bloomsbury Academic, 1984.
External links
- Beethoven's Great Love at IMDb
- Beethoven's Great Love at AllMovie