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.

Cast

Pyotr Glebov

Salieri

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Mozart

Sergey Lemeshev

Mozart

Aleksandr Pirogov

Salieri