Agnieszka Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers best known for her highly politicized contributions to Polish New Wave cinema but In COPYING  BEETHOVEN she takes the perspective of a fictional or compilation character - an aspiring young woman composer sent to be Beethoven's Copyist - to play with a real historical character - Beethoven during the last years of his life. A woman in a man's world and she tells it like it is.