British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Prince Lobkowitz
as Wranitzky
as Josephine Deym
as Josef Haydn
as Reis
as Otto Fisher
as Princess Marie Lobkowitz
as Therese Brunsvik
as Kirsten
as Stella
as Franz
as Sukowaty
as Paul Dorfmueller
as Count Dietrichstein
as Gerhardt
as Matthias
as Albrecht Dorfmeuller
as Frau Fisher
