Forget Mozart Explained

Forget Mozart
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Director:	Miloslav Luther
Starring:	Max Tidof Armin Mueller-Stahl Katharina Raacke Wolfgang Preiss
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Country:	Germany Czechoslovakia

Forget Mozart (German: '''Vergeßt Mozart''') is a 1985 West German-Czechoslovak mystery film directed by Miloslav Luther and starring Armin Mueller-Stahl, Max Tidof, and Wolfgang Preiss.

Following the death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a number of those who knew him are assembled to establish the cause of his death.

Cast

• Max Tidof as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Armin Mueller-Stahl as Graf Pergen
• Katharina Raacke as Constanze Mozart
• Wolfgang Preiss as Baron Gottfried van Swieten
• Uwe Ochsenknecht as Director Emanuel Schikaneder
• Winfried Glatzeder as Antonio Salieri
• Kurt Weinzierl as doctor
• as servant
• Katja Flint as Magdalena Demel
• Andrej Hryc as Franz Demel
• Ladislav Chudík as Joseph Haydn
• Zdenek Hradilák as Joseph II
• Juraj Hrubant as Figaro
• Andrej Malachovsky as Sarastro
• as Thorwald
• Naďa Hejná as Salieri's grandmother

Reception

Peter Keough of Chicago Reader wrote, "In Forget Mozart, only the Mozart remains memorable".^[1]

Notes and References

1. News: Forget Mozart. Keough. Peter. Chicago Reader. 26 October 1985.