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starring: Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matyelok Gibbs, Ed Harris, Bill Stewartdirected by: Agnieszka Holland
List Price: $19.98Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.99 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0027616064981
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 03, 2007
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 6786
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Description:
When young Anna Holz (Diane Kruger), a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven (Harris), she eagerly accepts, despite warnings about his volatile behavior. Part maestro, part mentor and part madman, Beethoven reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
Amazon.com:
A passionate, powerful drama based loosely on the final months of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, Copying Beethoven finds the maestro a haunted man, composing the most revolutionary yet unappreciated work of his lifetime; largely deaf; disappointed in his relationship with a wastrel nephew; and fascinated by a young, female composer, Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger), who goes to work for him transcribing music. Staying as a guest at a convent and engaged to a stolid engineer, Anna is drawn to Beethoven’s tempestuous genius. Half the time he's enchanted by her and seems to see straight through to her soul. The other half, he's shouting at her for her timidity or flattery. Hardly a mouse, Anna fights back. The more she does, the more Beethoven recognizes in her a kindred survivor, someone with whom he can reveal his vulnerability and the burden of his artistry. Ed Harris' Beethoven is wracked by pain but not overwhelmed by it; he looks like a man who understands his responsibility to nature too well to merely disintegrate. ('God whispers in most men's ears,' Beethoven says. 'He shouts in mine.') Director Agnieszka Holland (Olivier, Olivier) oversees a handsome, alternately tender and brutal drama, with several thrilling moments, including the stunned look of audience members hearing the world premiere of the glorious 9th Symphony. --Tom Keogh
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great Movie!
I viewed this movie from Netflix and loved it so much that I bought a copy to give for Christmas. I also viewed a documentary on Beethoven's life. "Copying Beethoven" is fictionalized but captured the the main elements of Beethoven's struggle with the sorrows of his life. Well done.
Rating:  - Disappointing
Any movie, play or novel about a great composer has great potential. These persons usually have complex, nuanced personalities, and lead interesting lives (well, there are exceptions, see Rossini). Beethoven is exhibit A. So the subject should be an easy one to make a great movie out of.
However, this particular movie disappoints greatly, I am sorry to say. Its nonfictional elements are historically inaccurate, the dialogue is sometimes silly, and the movie lacks a plot. Where is the ... Read More
Rating: - A terrific film even for non-classical music folks (full-screen edition)
This film truly defines quality melodrama (the promoters call it "drama")... the emotions of the principals herein are somewhat exaggerated and a superb soundtrack punctuates the action. The various scenes flow right along and are neither hokey, nor boring, nor lethargic.
Here we are transported to 1825 Vienna, Austria near the end of Beethoven's life. There is not much argument against Beethoven being the greatest classical music composer of all time and his groundbreaking Magnum opus, ... Read More
Rating:  - Remaking History
This is a variation on the theme of Beethoven's life. It adds a woman where none existed in his later years, but she is so pretty and likable that we don't care about authenticity. Buy this is film with a heavy discount and you won't be disappointed. Ed Harris is enjoying his role and so should you. And, oh yes, the music is good too.
Rating: - great
Ed Harris' performance is GREAT. Beethoven is my favorite composer, and I myself love to play on the piano his sonatas and feel how great this guy was. This story is just captivating. it shows you the personal aspect of Beethoven, who was he, how was he? how did he live. great dvd
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