Directed by:
Abel GanceCast:
Harry Baur, Annie Ducaux, Jany Holt, André Nox, Jane Marken, Jean Debucourt, Jean-Louis Barrault, Philippe Richard, Marcel Dalio, Enrico Glori, Lucas Gridoux (more)Plots(1)
France's master of the silent epic and international cinema legend Abel Gance is most celebrated for this sweeping and pioneering biography masterpiece Napoleonand his anti-war classic J'accuse. But this touching and tortured document of the legendary Beethoven's creative genius deserves equal tribute and attention.
Like Napoleon, Beethoven is Gance's portrait of a great mind, a giant of history, here crafted as a Romantic vision of the artist. The film chronicles the years of Beethoven's greatest successes and his struggles against overwhelming adversity -- poverty, the onset of deafness and his unrequited passion for his "Immortal Beloved."
(official distributor synopsis)
Cast
![Harry Baur](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/275/275780_32337f.jpg)
Harry Baur
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1934) (series)
Behold the Man (1935)
The Golem (1936)
![Annie Ducaux](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/434/434710_536c23.jpg)
Annie Ducaux
France
Best movies:
The Possessors (1958)
The American Beauty (1961)
Princess of Cleves (1961)
![Jany Holt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/440/440683_4755cb.jpg)
Jany Holt
Romania
Best movies:
Gervaise (1956)
La Femme gauchère (1977)
Angels of Sin (1943)
André Nox
France
Best movies:
J'accuse ! (1938)
![Jane Marken](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/437/437178_667e33.jpg)
Jane Marken
France
Best movies:
L'Idiot (1946)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Lovers of Paris (1957)
![Jean Debucourt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/505/505394_7e2193.jpg)
Jean Debucourt
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
![Jean-Louis Barrault](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/163/726/163726484_671b35.png)
Jean-Louis Barrault
France
Best movies:
Dialogue with the Carmelites (1960)
The Longest Day (1962)
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
Philippe Richard
France
Best movies:
Fantômas (1932)
![Marcel Dalio](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/412/412665_26979f.jpg)
Marcel Dalio
France
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
![Enrico Glori](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/437/437200_ddf60d.jpg)
Enrico Glori
Italy
Best movies:
La Dolce Vita (1960)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
Barabbas (1961)
![Lucas Gridoux](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/066/037/66037471_f3e8e7.jpg)
Lucas Gridoux
Romania
Best movies:
Behold the Man (1935)
Panic (1946)
Pépé le Moko (1937)
![Gisèle Préville](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/072/312/72312408_608017.jpg)
Gisèle Préville
France
Best movies:
The President (1961)
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1981)
![Roger Blin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/406/158406989_820396.jpg)
Roger Blin
France
Best movies:
The Knight of the Night (1954)
Le Corbeau (1943)
Orpheus (1950)
![Jean Pâqui](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/712/158712277_3d1436.jpg)
Jean Pâqui
France
Best movies:
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Napoleon (1955)
Caroline Cherie (1953)
Paul Pauley
France
Best movies:
Summer Hours (2008)
Georges Paulais
France
Best movies:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Gervaise (1956)
Eldorado (1921)
Gaston Dubosc
France
Georges Saillard
France
Best movies:
Behold the Man (1935)
J'accuse ! (1938)
![Nadine Vogel](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/319/165319487_15f9ae.png)
Nadine Vogel
France
Best movies:
Les Liaisons dangereuses (1959)