Overview
Genre
Drama, Musical, RomanceRelease Date
November 10, 2006 (Limited)MPAA Rating
PG-13Studio
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Cast and Crew
Director
Agnieszka HollandProducer
Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, Sidney Kimmel, Michael TaylorScreenwriter
Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher WilkinsonStarring
- Ed Harris as Ludwig van Beethoven
- Diane Kruger as Anna Holtz
- Matthew Goode as Martin Bauer
- Ralph Riach
- Bill Stewart
- George Mendel
- Joe Anderson
- Angus Barnett
- Nicholas Jones
- Phyllida Law
Story
An aspiring composer of humble means, 23-year-old Anna Holtz (Diane Kruger) is seeking inspiration and career advancement in the world's music capital, Vienna.
A student at the music conservatory, she is recommended for a position at a venerated publisher, and, in a fortuitous turn of events, orchestrates an opportunity to work beside the greatest, most mercurial artist alive - Ludwig van Beethoven (Ed Harris).
When the skeptical Beethoven issues an impromptu challenge, Anna demonstrates her competence and musical insight. The maestro accepts Anna as his copyist, beginning a remarkable relationship that will transform both of their lives.
Featuring Harris' remarkable incarnation as the celebrated composer, and a breakthrough performance by Kruger ("Troy," "National Treasure"), "Copying Beethoven" centers on the last years of Beethoven's life...a turbulent period in which his struggles with deafness, loneliness and family trauma provided profound inspiration for arguably the greatest symphony ever written, his astonishing Ninth.
