Amadeus

“The Man... The Music... The Madness... The Murder... The Motion Picture.”

8.0(4,807)19842h 40m

DramaHistoryMusic

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Director

Miloš Forman

Budget

$18.0M

Revenue

$90.0M

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Featurette

Cast

F. Murray Abraham

Antonio Salieri

Tom Hulce

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Elizabeth Berridge

Constanze Mozart

Simon Callow

Emanuel Schikaneder

Roy Dotrice

Leopold Mozart

Christine Ebersole

Katerina Cavalieri

Jeffrey Jones

Emperor Joseph II

Charles Kay

Count Orsini-Rosenberg

Kenny Baker

Parody Commendatore

Lisbeth Bartlett

Papagena

Barbara Bryne

Frau Weber

Martin Cavani

Young Salieri

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Reviews

2 reviews

Geronimo1967

3y ago

8.0

Rarely can I think of a more worthy multi-award winning performance than that from F. Murray Abraham in this masterfully crafted - if entirely speculative - retrospective on the life and times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (portrayed here by the astonishingly effective Tom Hulce). Abraham portrays the duplicitous, envious and malevolent Antonio Salieri, the court composer to Emperor Joseph II of Aust...

Wuchak

5y ago

8.0

_**Lively costume biography about Mozart’s last nine years in Austria**_ Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is a competent but mediocre composer in Vienna, Austria, in the late 1700s. He recognizes the God-given genius of the younger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and struggles with bitter envy. The story is told in flashback as Salieri shares it with a cleric decades later at an asylum. ...