immortal beloved
The film opens with Schindler (Jeroen Krabbe), Beethoven's confidante, beginning a search for the immortal beloved. As he visits the important women in Beethoven's life, we see flashbacks to the composer's disorderly and precarious existence, and we hear music, magnificent music. Taking the mysterious letter that Beethoven wrote to his "Immortal beloved" as the starting point, we follow his secretary's attempt to identify the person to whom the letter is addressed. No one knows, to this day, who that person really is, but the film offers an interesting theory. The letter, however,is just a device to tell the story of the wild genius that personifies the Romantic Movement in art. Gary Oldman plays the prime role of Ludwig Van Beethoven in the film. He is a man on the edge of madness, obsessed with women, even more obsessed with Karl (Marco Hofschneider), the young nephew he ho
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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