Movies: Ludwig van Beethoven

Liberation opera, revolutionary artwork, an ode to fidelity in love and utopian drama – Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, is all of these things. The numerous characterisations and interpretations add an aura of mystery to the opera but demonstrate ab...

Guitar prodigy Thibaut Garcia performs his album El Bohemio in Rouen's sublime Chapelle Corneille. A Latin-flavoured concert paying tribute to Paraguayan composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré....

SYSTAM highlights the inhumanity of those highest on the hierarchy, the dominant to the destitute. The film metaphorically depicts the whole process of child trafficking in a systematic way to unveil this hidden scheme. It further accentuates the rea...

Short film about the city of Cabo Frio, it's streets, people and architecture (or anti-architecture, as the director described). All of that with the soundtrack of Beethoven's 7th symphony - second movement...

Sir András Schiff performs Beethoven’s dramatic Piano Concerto No.1 on a stunning model of a historic 1822 fortepiano. Schiff describes Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 from 1795 as “absolutely huge in its concept for that time. I've always t...

Moments from a sophomore's life just before he leaves....

Scenes in a foggy train station: a little boy and several adult figures can be seen. Underlaid with music....

The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France invites the great Martha Argerich to perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 with them. A concert conducted by Ion Marin. Program: Ludwig van Beethoven with Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 7...

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An experimental animated short film of shapes and music notes animated by being drawn directly on Adobe Animate....

A day in the life of a lonely soul seems ordinary but is it really?...

Young Canadian virtuoso Bruce Liu displays the full range of his talent in a dazzling recital captured at the 2024 Ruhr Piano Festival....

The bad day of a film buff at the Cinematheque. A stranger projects herself on the screen and changes its course....

The harmony performed by players who drawn by lines metamorphose....

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After her son's death, a desperate mother involves her family in a séance led by a medium. What lies behind his mysterious death?...

Torment of a Saint revolves around Rishi Matthews and the 3 stages of his life. The 3 stages are depicted with the help of 3 famous paintings: Creation of Adam, The Scream, and The Last Supper. Watch the film and see our protagonist go through the 3 ...

This animated coming-of-age story explores the familial, societal, and religious challenges a boy faces because of his sexual orientation....

The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Joana Mallwitz, opens the 2025–2026 season with Maurice Ravel's hypnotic Boléro. This will be followed by Bryce Dessner's Piano Concerto, inspired and performed by pianist Alice Sara Ott. Also on the prog...

In homage to the composer who died a hundred years ago, on 4 November 1924, Thomas Hengelbrock conducts his celestial Requiem under the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. A musical event introduced by an orchestral version of Beethoven's String Quartet N...