The performance of Abraham, who won the Best Actor Oscar for it, is monumental, and so is Forman's direction.
Amadeus
The man... The music... The madness... The murder... The motion picture.
1984 · 2h 40m · PG
Drama, History, Music
Directed by
Miloš Forman
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Amadeus
Overview
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Director and cast
- Miloš Forman Director
- F. Murray Abraham as Antonio Salieri
- Tom Hulce as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Elizabeth Berridge as Constanze Mozart
- Simon Callow as Emanuel Schikaneder
- Roy Dotrice as Leopold Mozart
- Christine Ebersole as Katerina Cavalieri
- Jeffrey Jones as Emperor Joseph II
- Charles Kay as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
- Kenny Baker as Parody Commendatore
- Lisbeth Bartlett as Papagena
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Forman's tormented, iconoclastic subjects are often pitted against iconic or impersonal antagonists, but Amadeus' conflict remains rivetingly intimate, in spite of its sumptuous, larger-than-life settings.
The subject of artistic creation is typically handled badly in the movies.... [Amadeus] treats the subject of creativity in a fresh way.
A grand movie entertainment.
On a production level and as an evocation of a time and place, Amadeus is loaded with pleasures.
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