SINOSSI
Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work's debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven's life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.
- Ed HarrisLudwig van Beethoven
- Diane KrugerAnna Holtz
- Matthew GoodeMartin Bauer
- Phyllida LawMother Canisius
- Joe AndersonKarl van Beethoven
- Ralph RiachWenzel Schlemmer
- Matyelok GibbsOld Woman
- Bill StewartRudy
- Angus BarnettKrenski
- Viktoria DihenMagda
- Gábor BohusSchuppanzigh
- David KennedyNeighbor
- Nicholas JonesArchduke Rudolph
- László ÁronJudge
- Márta HainfartSoloist (Soprano)
- Karl JohnsonStefan Holtz
- János KlézliSoloist (Bass)
- Krisztina KutiSoloist (Alto)
- George MendelDoctor
- Péter SzondiSoloist (Tenor)