Composer beethoven biography documentary

Here comes Beethoven — the lurching, wild genius with his furrowed brow and unkempt hair. Here are the myths about his foul temper, his cruelty towards those he loved, his failed romances, his misery at losing contact with the world and his retreat into himself. Despite all this, he created masterpiece after masterpiece. What a story!

Triumph over adversity — with an impeccable soundtrack. As soon as movies took off, Beethoven became a compelling presence on the big screen. The first star to commit the tortured Teuton to celluloid was the French actor Harry Baur. A thickset, lugubrious-looking man, Baur portrayed Beethoven as early as and returned again to the role almost three decades later in Un Grand Amour de Beethoven, directed by Abel Gance.

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Featured review. Well structured story of Ludwig Van B, hampered by very unimaginative visuals. A fascinating story, very well structured and put together in a narrative sense, but very lacking cinematically. I imagine it would work well as a two-parter for TV, but in the cinema, after two hours, I was longing for some relief from the almost all poorly composed close-ups of the very interesting interviewees, from the constant shots of twigs and of wintry rural miscellany, and from the unimaginative coverage of musical performances.

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Episode 1 of 5. The Angel with the Trumpet. The Student's Romance. Partners in Crime. The Secret Adversary. The Pale Horse. Part 1 of 2. Episode 4 of 6. Episode 2 of 5. Written and Directed by Damon Thomas. The music of Beethoven's creative middle years is explored, alongside the dramatised recollections of his family and friends. In this period he wrote five symphonies, four concertos, and his only opera - Fidelio.

Written and Directed by Francesca Kemp.