Movies: Ludwig van Beethoven

Reinhard von Müsel and Yang Wen-li return to their respective homes, one victorious and the other defeated. While Reinhard earns the new name Lohengramm, while Yang and his friends celebrate some welcome news....

The story of Jesus' birth and what happened during it....

A young man suffering from insomnia cannot help but overhear a spider spinning improbable tales for his friends....

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has several strange encounters while trying to make his way from the former East Germany to "the west."...

A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates....

A mysterious call from his estranged father leads the prodigal son on a quest which is best described as absurd....

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A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization....

A concert-film using innovative cinematic techniques to set music to images. As conductor Herbert von Karajan didn't like the experimental style, he had the film re-edited severely before release....

This is chapter 451 of Ohio Sonata, a neverending Tolstoyan novel of stock images. An ungovernable soap opera of imposterous photos where film genres devour each other. Filmmaker Lluís Galter reorders and rewrites the meanings of these packets of com...

A tribute to the great Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, who died at the age of 94 on 17 June 2025. An acclaimed performer of Beethoven, he leaves behind him a musical legacy spanning more than sixty years. His performance of Beethoven's Piano Conce...

Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the anger of her father, whose inces...

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace....

Two twins fall in love with the same man and he thinks he only loves one woman....

Krystian Zimerman joined forces with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra last December in Beethoven’s five piano concertos. Their spellbinding performances, streamed on DG Stage from LSO St Luke’s and recorded live by Deutsche Grammoph...

Bob, a New York stock agent, and Jimmy, a Chicago cop, are bound by a promise to meet up at the same place where they left one another 10 years ago. As the clock strikes noon, secrets unravel, identities blur, and a decade of choices by each party cu...

Gafar wants to celebrate the anniversary of the death of Feyzulla, a man who has been dead for a year, and tries to bring the relatives together again......

The romance between a young aristocratic woman and an unlucky painter that takes place in the lakes of Bariloche....

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the US ties up with the world- renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out he was once in love with violinist's mother. The conductor, a sligh...

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her....