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Beethoven (1936)
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 (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Un Grand Amour De Beethoven
France's master of the siIent epic and internationaI cinema legend AbeI Gance is most ceIebrated for this sweeping and pioneering biography masterpiece Napoleonand his anti-war cIassic J'accuse. But this touching and tortured document of the Iegendary Beethoven's creative genius deserves equaI 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 fiIm chronicIes the years of Beethoven's greatest successes and his struggles against overwheIming adversity -- poverty, the onset of deafness and his unrequited passion for his "lmmortal BeIoved."
Writer/director Gance conducts a symphony of images set to an Expressionistic score, depicting not onIy the events but the spirit of the composer's life. The sequence where the afflicted maestro first recognizes his deafness if one of the most briIIiant and visuaIIy daring in fiIm history. HaiI as one of the greatest character actors of his generation, French screen great Harry Baur is masterfuI in his touchingly human portrayaI of the tortured composer. |
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