Amadeus

1984 160 min ★ 8.0 Drama, History, Music

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

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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

Details

Director

Miloš Forman

Screenplay

Peter Shaffer

Tagline

"The Man... The Music... The Madness... The Murder... The Motion Picture."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$18,000,000

Revenue

$90,007,557

Production

The Saul Zaentz Company

Reviews

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Wuchak

December 20, 2020

★ 8/10

_**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. ...

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CinemaSerf

January 7, 2023

★ 8/10

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...