Bonn, 1779. Eight-year-old Louis van Beethoven (Colin PĂŒtz) grows up in provincial Bonn and is considered a musical prodigy. The singer and actor Tobias Pfeiffer and the Bonn court organist Christian Gottlob Neefe take on the young genius and shape him in very different ways. Ludwig learns to go his own way, but offends society. A momentous encounter with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Vienna and the political upheavals of the time, which culminated in the French Revolution, aroused a freedom-loving spirit in the young Beethoven. All this is embedded in a framework story in which the older Beethoven stays on the estate of his brother Johann and his wife Therese shortly before his death in 1826. Despite his great successes, most recently with the Ninth Symphony, he struggles because his late work completely overwhelms his contemporaries. Now completely deaf, he looks back at missed opportunities. Director: Niki Stein Writer: Niki Stein Stars: Tobias Moretti, Colin PĂŒtz, Anselm Bresgott German with English Subtitles | 
