Beethoven's Nine: Ode to Humanity

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old piano teacher discovers the girl’s secret, her brutality and her dreams, she decides to transform her pupil into the musical wunderkind she once was.

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Chris Kraus

Cast

Monica Bleibtreu, Hannah Herzsprung, Sven Pippig

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social uphe...

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Carmine Gallone

Cast

Roland Alexandre, Elisa Cegani, Danièle Delorme

Beethoven spent three years composing the Eroica, an intimate journal of his emotional crises and his dramatic emergence as an original master. Michael Tilson Thomas and the musicians of the San Francisco Symphony help you make sense of this voyage into life as it really is.

Runtime

55m

Cast

Michael Tilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony

Made to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, IN SEARCH OF MOZART is the first feature-length documentary on Mozart's life. Produced with the world's leading orchestras and musicians, told through a 25,000 mile journey along every route Mozart followed, this detective story takes us to the heart of genius. Throughout, it i...

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Phil Grabsky

Cast

Juliet Stevenson, Sam West, Frank Adams-Brown

Recording of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan playing Beethoven's 8th Symphony.

Director

Hans Joachim Scholz

Cast

Herbert von Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic