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Immortal Beloved is a 1994 film about the life of composer Ludwig van Beethoven. It grossed $14,351,546 in the USA.

Cast

Gary Oldman
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Jeroen Krabbé
as Anton Felix Schindler
Isabella Rossellini
as Anna Marie Erdody
Johanna ter Steege as Johanna Reiss
Marco Hofschneider as Karl von Beethoven
Miriam Margolyes
as Nanette Streicher
Barry Humphries
as Clemens Metternich
Valeria Golino
as Giulietta Guicciardi

Crew

Directed and Written by

Bernard Rose

Produced by

Bruce Davey, producer
Stephen McEveety, executive producer

Non-Original Music by

Gioacchino Rossini (from La Gazza Ladra)

Cinematography by

Peter Suschitzky

Content and Reality

The movie is about the life of the composer Ludwig Van Beethoven, and the storyline is based on the letters of the composer written to an anonymous immortal beloved. Although these letters exist in real life, to whom these letters are meant to be is never found. Thus making this movie a fictitious one.

--Spoiler--

One big mistake done in the script of the movie is when Ludwig Van Beethoven talks to Anton Schindler listening to the Violin Sonata No 7 namely "Kreutzer" of Beethoven. Beethoven tells Schindler that music takes the listener to the metastate of the composer, and Beethoven further states that this sonata tells about a lover that is having trouble to reach his beloved and so. But the fact is this sonata is dedicated to the violonist Rudolphe Kreutzer and has no significant love theme in it.

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