Copying Beethoven overview

Synopsis:

When a young Vienna Music Conservatory student and aspiring composer accepts a job as a copyist for Ludwig von Beethoven, she soon finds her destiny forever interlinked with that of the legendary classical musician in director Agnieszka Holland's romantic period drama. Beethoven (Ed Harris)'s "Ninth Symphony" is about to make its historical debut, but Beethoven's publisher Herr Schlemmer is dying of cancer. Now in desperate need of a copyist to complete the score, the ailing Schlemmer enlists the aid of ambitious student Anna Holz (Diane Kruger); who readily accepts the job despite an explicit warning that the composer is a callous wretch.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Agnieszka Holland
  • Studio: Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 2, Pandora Film
  • Year: 2006
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Country: Hungary, UK
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: PG13 (for some sexual elements)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Drama
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2006 11 10 (USA - Limited)