Eroica
2003 · 89 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 685 VOTES · DIR. Simon Cellan Jones
Overview
British filmmaker Simon Cellan Jones directs the BBC drama Eroica, starring Ian Hart as Ludwig van Beethoven. Shot on digital video, this TV film depicts the first performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony, June 9th, 1804, in Vienna, Austria. Prince Lobkowitz (Jack Davenport) has invited friends to listen to Beethoven conduct his new symphony for the first time. Among the aristocratic attendees are Count Dietrichstein (Tim Pigott-Smith), Countess Brunsvik (Claire Skinner), and composer Josef Haydn (Frank Finlay). The actual musical score is performed by the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner.
Dialogue Timeline — 480 lines
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00:00:45 There are some extra fellows coming for today's rehearsal.
00:02:47 He's got a rather aggressive way of doing it. My friend Menzel says he'll be back.
00:05:18 I booked another horn, as you requested, sir. But won't two be enough?
00:07:39 - Citizen Fisher. - Citizen.
00:10:23 This will all be gone one day, you know. It will all be swept aside.
00:12:02 I don't really know very much about it, my friend.
00:15:20 Stop!
00:16:54 Not slow. Urgent.
00:32:01 I thought of a battle. I thought of a general, horse rearing, saber shining.
00:35:49 I can just see the death carts in the boulevards, can't you, Therese?
00:49:09 Difficult is beautiful.
00:50:27 He doesn't accept the inequality.
00:51:47 Yes. Some of us are more patriotic than others.
00:53:30 Sir, I am not impertinent, you know.
00:54:52 - Maybe not. - I did.
00:56:14 - I've been a widow for seven months. - You're not saying no.
00:58:08 Are you angry with me?
00:59:56 They will be taken away from me.
01:05:16 He's an idiot.
01:06:46 The key, as ever, is restraint.
01:08:00 for a benefit concert.
01:09:37 Yes.
01:17:51 Unusual?
60:00:00 but we still got thrashed.