Baby Amadeus

Salzburg, May 1787. While working on Don Giovanni, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drifts into memories with his wife Constanze. He retraces the three adventurous journeys that, between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, led him to discover Trentino.This is not merely a chronicle of triumphs and musical academies, but the intimate story of a "Baby Amadeus", caught between the role of a "prodigy on display" promoted by his father Leopold and his fierce desire to become a free man.From the unease of Bolzano to the austere Trento of the women washing clothes at the Neptune Fountain, and finally to the safe haven of Rovereto and Ala, Mozart encounters once again the faces of the Lodrons, the Pizzinis, and Count Firmian.Wolfgang feels he has a "debt of gratitude" to repay: a tribute to a land that welcomed him with genuine affection.Thus was born the celebrated reference to the "excellent Marzemino" in the toast of his roguish protagonist, a seal of nostalgia for the years that were the flower of his life.Pino Loperfido digs into the cracks of the myth to give us a vivid, deeply human portrait of the Salzburg genius, captured at the moment when a miraculous childhood gives way to adulthood.