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Immortal Beloved

Year:

1995

Duration:

121 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.4

Director:

Bernard Rose

Awards:

1 nomination

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 1995-01-06

Filming Locations: Kromeríz, Czech Republic

Earnings

Gross: $9,914,409 (USA) Admissions 216,256 (France)

Cast

Actor

Character

Rory Edwards

Immortal Beloved

Leo Faulkner

Immortal Beloved

Gary Oldman

Ludwig van Beethoven

Jeroen Krabbé

Anton Felix Schindler

Isabella Rossellini

Anna Marie Erdödy

Johanna ter Steege

Johanna Reiss

Marco Hofschneider

Karl van Beethoven

Miriam Margolyes

Nanette Streicherová

Barry Humphries

Clemens Metternich

Valeria Golino

Giulietta Guicciardi

Gerard Horan

Nikolaus Johann van Beethoven

Christopher Fulford

Kaspar Anton Carl van Beethoven

Alexandra Pigg

Therese Obermayer

Luigi Diberti

Franz Josef Guicciardi

Michael Culkin

Jakob Hotscevar

Donal Gibson

Karl Holz

Matthew North

Young Karl van Beethoven

Geno Lechner

Josephine von Brunsvik

Claudia Solti

Theresa von Brunsvik

Hannes Flaschberger

Joseph Deym

Fintan McKeown

Johann van Beethoven, Sr

Everton Nelson

George Bridgetower

Sandra Voe

Marie Fröhlich

Bernard Rose

Elector Max Friedrich

Jindra Petráková

Lilo Braun

Marek Vasut

Custody policeman

Hugo Kaminský

Magistrate

Stanislav Behal

Ignaz Schuppanzigh

Arnostka Mohelská

Suzanna Guicciardi

Stepan Hlatky

Zoltan

Gordon Lovitt

Metternich's flunky

Anna Kolinska

Fritzi Erdödy

Ruby Rose

Mimi Erdödy

Johan Kolinsky

August Erdödy

Josef Kolínský

August Erdödy

Jan Kuzelka

Country policeman

Barbora Srncová

Erdödy's servant

Bruce Davey

Artillery captain

Jan Censký

Captain (uncredited)

Tomás Hanák

Jacob Raicz (uncredited)

Stanislav Hybler

Sergeant (uncredited)

Ladislav Kazda

Landlord (uncredited)

Jirí Patocka

Pock-marked tramp (uncredited)

Petr Pospíchal

Thin man (uncredited)

Pavel Vondruska

Aristocrat (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

Stephen Rea turned down the role of Beethoven.

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Some extras fainted in the extreme heat during the filming of the funeral scene.

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Jeroen Krabbé, who plays the part of Schindler, was going to play the part of Beethoven. Later on the part went to Gary Oldman and Krabbé was asked to play Schindler.

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Goofs

At his first public recital, Ludwig was eight years-old (some sources report seven) and his father announced him as six, yet the movie conveys, via voiceover, that Ludwig was "12 and his father told the court he was nine".

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When the Countess Erdody's home is hit, during Napoleon's bombing of Vienna, her son is thrown by the blast before it actually hits.

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Beethoven's estate was not willed to his Immortal Beloved.

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Quotes

Ludwig van Beethoven: Music is... a dreadful thing.

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Ludwig van Beethoven: It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

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Anton Felix Schindler: There can be no peace without the truth.

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