Film
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
France- Director
- Abel Gance
- Year
- 1937
An epic dramatisation that opens in 1801 Vienna, two of Beethoven's young pupils fall in love with him, before focusing on his unrequited and tragic romances, particularly with Juliette Guicciardi and Thérèse de Brunswick. He suffers deep depression and embarks on resilience at a mill in Heiligenstadt upon realising he's losing his hearing.
Top cast
Harry Baur
Ludwig van Beethoven
Jean-Louis Barrault
Karl van Beethoven
Annie Ducaux
Therese of Brunswick
Jany Holt
Juliette Guicciardi
Jane Marken
Esther Frechet
Marcel Dalio
Steiner
André Nox
Humpholz
Lucas Gridoux
Smeskall
Paul Pauley
Schuppanzigh
Lucien Rozenberg
Comte Guicciardi
Yolande Laffon
Countess Guicciardi
Jean Debucourt
Count Robert Gallenberg
Georges Paulais
Georges Saillard
Breuning
Jean Pâqui
Pierrot
Philippe Richard
Enrico Glori
André Bertic
Johann Van Beethoven
Directed by
Abel Gance
Written by
Steve Passeur, Abel Gance
Produced by
Louis Daquin, Christian Stengel
