
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