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After this film lingers on a shot of rain falling on lye-covered corpses in an open grave, it cuts to a shot of hands losing grasp of a cross. The sweet tooth of this film’s protagonist leads to a scene in which he overhears a man talking backwards. A sound bridge in this film involves a close-up on an old woman screaming “you selfish thing!” dissolving to a wide shot of chandeliers in front of a smoke-filled stage depicting clouds. Having declared himself a “patron saint,” this film’s protagonist repeats “I absolve you!” in a wheelchair, after which this film ends with the sound of a (*) high-pitched laugh. Two characters in this film don a tricorn hat and two-faced mask for an all-black costume that resembles the figure raising its arms on this film’s poster. Peter Shaffer’s screenplay for (10[1])this film (10[1])invents the idea that its protagonist transcribed the title character’s Requiem Mass. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this Miloš Forman film described as a “fantasia on the theme of Salieri and Mozart.” ■END■

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