Mozart and Salieri
1962
Drama, Music | 19 November 1962
Pyotr Glebov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Sergey Lemeshev
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.