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.

• Rīgas kinostudija
• Pyotr Glebov
• Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
• Sergey Lemeshev
• Aleksandr Pirogov