Mozart and Salieri

Mozart and Salieri

10.0IMDb Score
Released:1962-11-19
Duration:47 min
Country:Soviet Union
Director:Vladimir Gorikker
Actors:Pyotr Glebov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Sergey Lemeshev, Aleksandr Pirogov
Production:Rīgas kinostudija
Keywords:opera,mozart

Overview:

Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Salieri), based on a legend that Salieri poisoned Mozart, meditates on the nature of creativity while introducing, in brilliantly compressed speeches, what was to be one of the important Russian themes—metaphysical rebellion against God.

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