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.
