The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow (1994)

Plot Summary

The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer, not to the details of Schubert's life, but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried "to brighten the world". The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven, at which Schubert was a torch-bearer, His story is told almost entirely in music written in the twenty months that remained to him after that date, together with quotations from Schubert's letters, diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs. Includes personal introductions by Christopher Nupen and Jacqueline du Pré and features the legendary 1969 performance of The Trout with Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, Jacqueline du Pré, Pinchas Zukerman and Zubin Mehta.

Full Cast & Characters

Daniel Barenboim

Self

Jacqueline du Pré

Self

Pinchas Zukerman

Self

Zubin Mehta

Self

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Self

Michael Sanderling

Self

Andreas Schmidt

Self

Antje Weithaas

Self

Wolfgang Sawallisch

Self

Itzhak Perlman

Self

Director & Crew

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