Documentary

Portrait of Edvard Grieg

What Price Immortality?

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Cast

Staffan Scheja — Edvard Grieg

Philip Brammer — Edvard Grieg

Claudia Zöhrer — Nina Hagerup

Sabine Oberhorner — Leis Schjelderup

Michael Baral — Rikard Nordraak

Lasse Kolsrud — John Grieg

Haakon Rasmos Rasmussen — John Grieg

Kai Ole Taule — Frants Beyer

Hanne Fjerdingstad — Marie Beyer

Tor Blaha — Edvard's Father

Berit Slettermark — Edvard's Mother

Stig Vaular — Nina's Father

Torill Alraek — Nina's Mother

Emanuel Dyrr — Franz Liszt

Peter Linke — Peter Tchaikovsky

Joachim Meier — Johannes Brahms

Günther Morbitzer — Adolph Brodsky

Program notes

Discover this wonderful biopic about one of the leading composer of the Romantic movement.

Thomas Olofsson’s 1999 biopic of the composer Edvard Grieg, entitled What Price Immortality?, was greeted with great interest and international acclaim. The film, which was written by Olofsson himself, along with Ture Rangström und Johanna Olofsson, attempts to give a picture of Edvard Grieg, both as a man and a composer, a figure who still receives less attention outside Scandinavia than he deserves. The pianist Staffan Scheja plays the role of Edvard Grieg as both performer and composer, playing works such as the piano ballad in G minor, op. 24. The internationally renowned Auryn Quartet plays the initial String Quartet in G minor, op. 27.

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