Copying Beethoven

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Call Number: DVD Drama Copying
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Special features: audio commentary soundtrack by actor Ed Harris and director Agnieszka Holland ; deleted scenes with optional commentary by director Agnieszka Holland ; "Orchestrating Copying Beethoven" featurette.
Ed Harris, Diane Kruger, Ralph Riach, Matthew Goode, Phyllida Law, Joe Anderson, Bill Stewart, Angus Barnett, Matyelok Gibbs, Gábor Bohus, Viktoria Dihen.
When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
DVD, region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) presentation.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Nice insight submitted by mcreader on June 26, 2012, 12:34pm The film provides a good look at what Beethoven must have been like. It's a well-rounded description --- both good and bad, genius and ignorant, passionate and depressed, etc... It is somewhat deceiving in that the film pretends to be non-fiction yet there was no actual Anna Holz; apparently just a composite of people who were a part of Beethoven's life. Music is wonderful.

Great Music, RIDICULOUS, laughably politically correct fairy tale script. submitted by Tassos on October 20, 2019, 8:47am Produced by fanatics with an agenda, and their audience is the idiots who buy these politically correct fairy tales, who have ZERO relation with the REAL events of the time.

From Wikipedia:

"The working manuscript of the score is attributed to two copyists,[2] both of whom were male, not a single female as depicted in the film. "

To make it EVEN more ridiculous, this phony female Anna Holtz, who never existed, but according to the movie was the best student and even composed on her own, she was UTTERLY miscast, being played by... Miss Universe Contestant Diane Kruger, a photogenic actress who played the role of Helen of Troy in the movie of same name. Seriously, idiots?????

Nice try REWRITING HISTORY of the Greatest Composer EVER...

A colleague of mine observed, long before this movie, that there is a whole gendre of similar RIDICULOUS movies.