Eroica (2003 film)

Eroica
Directed bySimon Cellan Jones
Written byNick Dear
Produced byLiza Marshall
StarringIan Hart
Tim Pigott-Smith
Anton Lesser
Frank Finlay
Edited byJoe Walker
Music byWolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven
Distributed byBBC
Release date
  • 4 October 2003 (2003-10-04)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Eroica is a BBC television film that dramatises the first performance of Beethoven's third symphony, the Eroica. It carries the tagline 'The day that changed music forever'.

The film was directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Nick Dear and starred Ian Hart, Tim Pigott-Smith, Anton Lesser and Frank Finlay. The music was played by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner. It won the Prix Italia for Performing Arts in 2004.[1]

  1. ^ "Winners 1949–2010", Prix Italia (PDF), IT: RAI, 2010, archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2013.