"At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war between the Premyslovci and the other clans the main profiteer of this being the German emperor. At that time it seemed as if the Czech state and the lineage of its princes was awaiting its end..." It is with these words that the tale of this film begins, whose narrative is based up...
Karel Kachyňa has managed to credibly portray the glum fifties even during the times of the Normalization, without resorting to considerable idealizations. Even though he had to abandon any of the political context whatsoever, he captured the often bizarre realities of these times past. For this movie he chose the picturesque ikov (worker's part of Prague, his film Lásky mezi...
After The Assistant, The Southern Mail is the second novel of Ladislav Ballek to be adapted to the movie screen. It is setin a fictitious border town in the south of Slovakia shortly after WWII, when the new state borders were just drawn on the maps. The recollections of a forty-year-old author about.his childhood take us backto the 1940s. We see the un-certain times, the confl...
本片从一个宫廷乐师萨里埃利的角度,为我们呈现了天才莫扎特的一生。萨里埃利(F·莫里·亚伯拉罕 F. Murray Abraham饰)是维也纳音乐界里有名的人物,自视甚高的他自从遇到了莫扎特(汤姆·休斯克 Tom Hulce饰),心里的妒嫉之火便熊熊燃烧不能平息。莫扎特总能以他超乎常人的音乐作品赢得全场惊叹,他的《费加罗的婚礼》等歌剧,都成了传颂千古的经典。
萨里埃利对莫扎特又羡慕又嫉恨的心理已经发展到几乎扭曲的地步。他在莫扎特的事业上一次次的从中作梗——故意缩短歌剧的上演周期,恶意删改莫扎特的作品,在莫扎特承受着丧父之痛时给他无情的精神折磨。贫穷虚弱的莫扎特在生命最后的几年里,写就遗作《安魂曲》,一代大师35岁就与世长辞,留下不朽作品。而萨里埃利,早有等待他的宿命般的结局。