Interlude In Prague -2017- -

Mozart lodges with the Duschek family, where he meets the ethereal soprano Josefa (Morfydd Clark). What begins as a professional admiration quickly darkens. The film’s “interlude” refers to the composer’s brief, fatal stay—but also to a horrific act: after a lavish ball, Mozart is drugged and coerced into a sexual encounter with Josefa, who is secretly the protégée of the sadistic, powerful Baron Saloka (Adrian Edmondson, in a terrifying against-type performance).

The film, which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival before a limited theatrical release, is not a standard biopic. Instead, it uses the real historical backdrop of Mozart’s visit to the Czech capital in 1787 as the canvas for a lurid, operatic tale of rape, revenge, and artistic transcendence. The story follows a fictionalized Mozart (played with manic vulnerability by Aneurin Barnard) as he arrives in Prague to oversee the premiere of his opera The Marriage of Figaro . He is young, brilliant, and hopelessly frivolous. But the city is rotting beneath its Baroque veneer. interlude in prague -2017-

Date: April 17, 2026

In a 2018 interview with Sight & Sound , Stephenson defended his approach: “Mozart wasn’t a saint. He was a messy, arrogant genius. Interlude is about how trauma doesn’t just affect victims—it infects everyone in the orbit. The ‘interlude’ is the space between the crime and the reckoning.” Mozart lodges with the Duschek family, where he