Amadeus is based not even on the Pushkin's play, but on the book The Wisdom of Pushkin (1919) by the Jewish writer Mikhail Gershenson. All this blah blah about Salieri's relationship with god is from Gershenson's chapter about 'Mozart and Salieri', word by word. Amadeus isn't even about Catholicism - it's about Judaism in Gershenson's head projected on Pushkin's Salieri.











