Mozart and Salieri

Mozart and Salieri

47 mins | Drama, Music | Nov. 19, 1962

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.

Mozart and Salieri

47 mins | Drama, Music | Nov. 19, 1962

Mozart and Salieri
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.
Producers Rīgas kinostudija
Original title Моцарт и Сальери
Directors Vladimir Gorikker
Writers Alexander Pushkin

Cast

Pyotr Glebov

as Salieri

Sergey Lemeshev

as Mozart

Aleksandr Pirogov

as Salieri