Movie Info

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...(read more...) 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.

Director: Agnieszka Holland

MPAA: PG-13

Running Time: 104 minutes

Release Date: Dec 31, 2006

Cast: Diane Kruger, Ed Harris, Joe Anderson, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Jones, Phyllida Law, Ralph Riach