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Beethoven's Great Love
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Wikipedia article
'Beethoven's Great Love' (French: 'Un grand amour de Beethoven' is a 1936 French historical musical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt.King p.243 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'.
It was shot at the Cit Elg Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.
Synopsis
In Vienna in the early 1800s while working as a musical tutor, two of Beethoven's pupils are in love with him. One ends up marrying a count instead while the other spends years of unrequited love as his fiance. Beethoven moves to Heiligenstadt to dedicate himself to his music, and overcoming his growing deafness, composes a series of masterworks.
Cast
* Harry Baur as Ludwig van Beethoven
* Annie Ducaux as Thrse de Brunswick
* Jany Holt as Juliette Guicciardi
* Jean-Louis Barrault as Karl van Beethoven
* Jean Debucourt as Le comte Robert Gallenberg
* Andr Nox as Humpholz
* Gaston Dubosc as Anton Schindler
* Sylvie Gance as La mre de l'enfant mort
* Georges Paulais as Le mdecin
* Georges Saillard as Breuning
* Jean Pqui as Pierrot
* Jane Marken as Esther Frechet - la cuisinire
* Marcel Dalio as L'diteur Steiner
* Andr Bertic as Johann van Beethoven
* Roger Blin as de Ries
* Dalmras as Franz Schubert
* Lucas Gridoux as Nikolaus Zmeskall
* Yolande Laffon as La coumtesse Guicciardi
* Lucien Rozenberg as Le comte Guicciardi
* Paul Pauley as Schuppanzigh
See also
*List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing
References
Bibliography
* King, Norman. 'Abel Gance: A Politics of Spectacle'. Bloomsbury Academic, 1984.
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