Forget Mozart
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| Original title | Forget Mozart |
| Country of production | Germany , Czechoslovakia |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Miroslav Luther |
| script | Zdenek Mahler |
| production | Karel Dirka |
| music | Peter Breiner |
| camera | Dodo Simoncic |
| cut |
Alfréd Bencic , Peter Przygodda |
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Forget Mozart is a feature film from 1985 . The German-Czech co-production deals with the life of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
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After Mozart's death in 1791, companions from the life of the deceased composer gathered on his deathbed: Mozart's wife Constanze Mozart , the composer Antonio Salieri , Mozart's patron Baron Gottfried van Swieten and director Emanuel Schikaneder , librettist of Mozart's last opera The Magic Flute . Also present is the head of the imperial secret service, Count Pergen, who questions those present to clarify the cause of death.
A flashback tells how Mozart organized a musical competition before Joseph II , which his opponent Salieri won.
Another flashback describes Mozart's acceptance into the Masonic lodge by Baron van Swieten. Influenced by their ideals of equality and brotherhood, Mozart rebelled against his noble employers, who see him as lackeys and not as an artist. This leads to a discussion between Mozart and Count Pergen, who sees the Masonic lodges as a threat to the authority of the emperor and the church.
The wax figure maker Franz Demel, who died at the same time as Mozart, successfully asked the composer for music lessons for his wife Magdalena while the wax figure was being made.
In another flashback, Count Pergen reports how Mozart should be obliged to pay an annual compensation before his marriage to Constanze if the marriage did not take place. Constanze prevented Mozart's signature because Mozart did not need such an obligation.
Shortly after moving into their common home, Mozart wrote Figaro's wedding , with which Mozart intended to question his respect for the authorities. During the premiere at the time of the first quake of the French Revolution , Emperor Joseph II decided to cancel the opera.
While Mozart struggled with health problems and Constanze suffered from his extravagance, Baron van Swieten refused to lend his extravagant lodge colleague any more money. A little later, Mozart used Constanze's stay at the spa for an affair with Magdalena Demel.
During this time, a masked stranger ordered a requiem from Mozart . The troubled Mozart was convinced that the Requiem was meant for himself; but Schikaneder managed to cheer Mozart up again with a bold joke.
While he was still working on the Magic Flute , Baron van Swieten gave Mozart the opportunity to compose La clemenza di Tito for the imperial couple Leopold II and Marie Luise , but to van Swieten's outrage, he refused to do so because of the Magic Flute . After the premiere of the Magic Flute , the Masonic Lodge respected the opera during their last meeting as an act of assistance by their confreres Mozart and Schikaneder.
On the night of his death, Count Pergen suspects that Mozart was poisoned by the composition of the Magic Flute for betraying Masonic secrets , especially since the Freemasons' oath for treason envisages death. Schikaneder, in turn, would have been condemned to use mercury to execute Mozart's death sentence. However, it turns out that Mozart took the mercury to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. While Count Pergen accuses Salieri of envy of Mozart, Constanze says that Mozart became infected during Salieri's orgies. While Count Pergen blames all those present and looks for the main culprit, Salieri again accuses him of eliminating Mozart on behalf of the government.
Another flashback, however, identifies Demel as the ominous client of the requiem, who wanted to trigger a rush of visitors for Mozart's wax figure in this way. This was destroyed by Demel's angry wife, who killed her husband in the ensuing confrontation.
Count Pergen tells those present that Demel destroyed his characters in a fit of madness and then committed suicide; Mozart himself died quietly. Since the dead create more passion than the living, Count Pergen orders those present: "Forget Mozart!"
Reviews
“A period film in the aftermath of the global hit“ Amadeus ”; With staging geared towards glaring effects, it only partially meets its demands in terms of presentation and music. "
Web links
- Forget Mozart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Forget Mozart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .