, when his cinematographer suggested that he appear in the film. Having never been on screen in any of his 40 works, he initially dismissed the idea. But an unexpected personal loss ultimately became one of the central storylines in the film, which premiered April 28 at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.in pain and in total deafness, as a love letter to humanity and a protest letter in response to the world that was crumbling around the composer.Leonard Bernstein and four others.
“All the cool kids were Enlightenment thinkers,” writer Rebecca Newberger Goldstein says in the documentary. “Beethoven would have been aware of what was flyin.’ ”comic strip is shown: “I’m looking for the answer to life, Schroeder,” Lucy says.