Saving Mozart
Feature film | Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany
Director: Gérard Corbiau
Producer: Saga Film, Deal Productions, FilmLine
Sales by: Atlas Film International
With the support of: Filmfund Luxembourg, Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgian Tax Shelter and the Bayern FFF
Starring: Gabriel Byrne
Status: Financed
Ill-stricken with Tuberculosis a Jewish composer and Salzburg Music Festival critic decides to kill Hitler during a historical meeting with Mussolini at the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy in 1939.
Fate takes a different turn and while he fails to achieve murder, he instead masterminds a Musical Coup…in order to Save Mozart!
More infos:
Gérard Corbiau is best known for his costume dramas about music, Le maître de musique (1987), Farinelli (1994) and Le roi danse (2000). Two of them (Le maître de musique and Farinelli) were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 1985, he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Farinelli.
