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Immortal Beloved
This biography chronicles the life and death of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven as well as his painful struggle with hearing loss. Beside all the work he is known for, the composer once wrote a famous love letter to a nameless beloved and the movie tries to find out who this beloved was.
17 February 1934, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
1965, Germany
11 November 1962, Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
18 June 1952, Rome, Lazio, Italy
January 29, 1976 in New York City, New York, USA
20 February 1986, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1962, Knotty Ash, Liverpool, England, UK
18 October 1969, Berlin, Germany
1947, Prague, Czechoslovakia
April 23, 2004
real coup is the perfect casting of consummate chameleon actor Gary Oldman as Beethoven.September 12, 2002
Strains to evoke tortured artist agony, but instead just strains.September 28, 2005
A little slow, but overall a good film.September 27, 2004
Imitation Ken Russell biopic lacking in power and a feel for the music.December 12, 2006
I doubet whether Rose's speculative and overwroght chronicle of Beethoven will rekindle interest in the composer's life and work in the same way that Amadeus did for Mozart.August 17, 2004
As writer and director, Bernard Rose must take full responsibility for the fictions masquerading as fact in his treatment of Beethoven's life and loves.November 08, 2004
completely nuts!October 09, 2002
Haunting use of Beethoven's music.November 16, 2014
Rose's Beethoven biopic is something of a Europudding, a stodgy concoction of clashing accents and performance styles.August 30, 2002
Passionate and transfixing scereen biography of Ludwig van Beethoven.