The Genius of Mozart (TV Miniseries)
2004 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom
The story begins with the composer's father Leopold with whom Mozart conducted a passionate and tortured correspondence. It is Leopold who knows Mozart's secrets. And there is another voice: that of the music itself. Music is the key to unlocking the emotions of Mozart, starting in this film with the great piano works. Without this key, how can we ever understand the emotions that gave birth to some of the most beautiful sounds the world has ever heard? The first great phase of Mozart's brief life was that of the travelling child prodigy - gifted as a performer and writer of music - who grew into the genius who, working within the restrictions of his time, began to rewrite the musical rules.But there was another facet to Mozart - the adult thinker aware of the bigger picture, passionately attached to the progressive values of the Enlightenment - impressively well-read, a speaker of most European languages (even a little English), an Austrian Catholic, a Freemason and above all a ...
Direction Andy King-Dabbs · James Kent · Ursula Macfarlane
Cast Ed Pearce · Andrew Price · Jack Tarlton · Kenneth Cranham · Emma Cunniffe · Claire Skinner · Geoffrey Beevers · Ron Donachie · Andrew Shore · Murray Melvin · Anthony Rolfe-Johnson · Elena Mosuc · Philip Anthony · Haidée Augusta · Eileen Battye · Adela Donovalova · Harriet Eastcott · Cate Fowler · Charles Hazlewood · Zuzana Hodkova · Lenka Korínková · Stepan Krucka · Andrew Leonard · Ben Lewis · Maira Matlova · David O'Kelly · Robert Orr · Chris Porter · Robert Russel · Derek Smee · Karel Vrtiska · Tabitha Webb
Soundtrack Francesca Kemp · Toby Purser
Screenplay James Kent
Cinematography Roger Chapman · Mike Eley
Original title The Genius of Mozart
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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