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Beethoven's Great Love (French: Un grand amour de Beethoven is a 1936 French historical musical drama film directed by Abel Gance and starring Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux and Jany Holt.[1][2] It portrays the career of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Britain and the United States it was sometimes alternatively titled The Life and Loves of Beethoven.

Beethoven's Great Love
Directed by	Abel Gance
Written by	Abel Gance Steve Passeur
Produced by	Michel Kagansky Christian Stengel
Starring	Harry Baur Annie Ducaux Jany Holt
Cinematography	Marc Fossard Robert Lefebvre
Edited by	Marguerite Beaugé André Galitzine
Music by	Philippe Gaubert
Production company	Général Productions
Distributed by	Éclair-Journal
Release date	7 December 1936 (1936-12-07)
Running time	135 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

It was shot at the Cité Elgé Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jacques Colombier.

Synopsis

In Vienna in the early 1800s while working as a musical tutor, two of Beethoven's pupils are in love with him. One ends up marrying a count instead while the other spends years of unrequited love as his fiancée. Beethoven moves to Heiligenstadt to dedicate himself to his music, and overcoming his growing deafness, composes a series of masterworks.

Cast

• Harry Baur as Ludwig van Beethoven
• Annie Ducaux as Thérèse de Brunswick
• Jany Holt as Juliette Guicciardi
• Jean-Louis Barrault as Karl van Beethoven
• Jean Debucourt as Le comte Robert Gallenberg
• André Nox as Humpholz
• Gaston Dubosc as Anton Schindler
• Sylvie Gance as La mère de l'enfant mort
• Georges Paulais as Le médecin
• Georges Saillard as Breuning
• Jean Pâqui as Pierrot
• Jane Marken as Esther Frechet - la cuisinière
• Marcel Dalio as L'éditeur Steiner
• André Bertic as Johann van Beethoven
• Roger Blin as de Ries
• Dalméras as Franz Schubert
• Lucas Gridoux as Nikolaus Zmeskall
• Yolande Laffon as La coumtesse Guicciardi
• Lucien Rozenberg as Le comte Guicciardi
• Paul Pauley as Schuppanzigh

See also

• List of films featuring the deaf and hard of hearing

References

Bibliography

• King, Norman. Abel Gance: A Politics of Spectacle. Bloomsbury Academic, 1984.

External links

• Beethoven's Great Love at IMDb
• Beethoven's Great Love at AllMovie

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