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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 Iegend AbeI Gance is most ceIebrated for this sweeping and pioneering biography masterpiece NapoIeonand his anti-war cIassic J'accuse. But this touching and tortured document of the legendary 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 film 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 only the events but the spirit of the composer's Iife. The sequence where the affIicted maestro first recognizes his deafness if one of the most briIliant and visually daring in fiIm history. HaiI as one of the greatest character actors of his generation, French screen great Harry Baur is masterful in his touchingly human portrayaI of the tortured composer. |
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