Directed by:
Abel GanceCast:
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, André Nox, Jane Marken, Jean Debucourt, Jean-Louis Barrault, Philippe Richard, Marcel Dalio, Enrico Glori, Lucas Gridoux (more)Plots(1)
France's master of the silent epic and international cinema legend Abel Gance is most celebrated for this sweeping and pioneering biography masterpiece Napoleonand his anti-war classic J'accuse. But this touching and tortured document of the legendary Beethoven's creative genius deserves equal tribute and attention.
Like Napoleon, Beethoven is Gance's portrait of a great mind, a giant of history, here crafted as a Romantic vision of the artist. The film chronicles the years of Beethoven's greatest successes and his struggles against overwhelming adversity -- poverty, the onset of deafness and his unrequited passion for his "Immortal Beloved."
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Harry Baur
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Behold the Man (1935)
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Annie Ducaux
France
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The Possessors (1958)
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Jany Holt
Romania
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André Nox
France
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J'accuse ! (1938)
Jane Marken
France
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Jean Debucourt
France
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Jean-Louis Barrault
France
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Philippe Richard
France
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Marcel Dalio
France
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Enrico Glori
Italy
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Lucas Gridoux
Romania
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Gisèle Préville
France
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Roger Blin
France
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Jean Pâqui
France
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Napoleon (1955)
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Paul Pauley
France
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Georges Paulais
France
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Gaston Dubosc
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Georges Saillard
France
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Nadine Vogel
France
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