Amadeus
1984·United States·158 min.
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In a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). Later, from his cell in an insane asylum, Salieri tells a priest (Herman Meckler) the story of his association with Mozart, confessing that he actually killed the brilliantly gifted but troubled young man.
DirectorMilos Forman
ScreenwriterPeter Shaffer
CinematographyMiroslav Ondricek
CastTom Hulce·F. Murray Abraham·Elizabeth Berridge·Simon Callow·Roy Dotrice·Christine Ebersole·Jeffrey Jones·Charles Kay·Richard Frank·Cynthia Nixon·Vincent Schiavelli·Kenneth McMillan·Kenny BakerShow all
Original titleAmadeus