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Amadeus

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Amadeus
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PG,2hrs 38min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama,Musical
Released:
September 6, 1984
Director:
Milos Forman
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge  ...more
Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Czech political crises of 1968, bringing along his usual cinematographer and fellow Czech expatriate, Miroslav Ondricek. Amadeus is an expansion of a Viennese "urban legend" concerning the death of 18th-century musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From the vantage point of an insane asylum, aging royal composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) recalls the events ... Full Synopsis
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Rebecca Flint Marx, AMG Review
Amadeus is a rarity: a dramatic film made by people who understood music as much as filmmaking. A celebration of music and genius, the film exults over Mozart's seemingly divine creations even as it refuses to canonize the man behind them. Instead, the decision to tell the story from Salieri's point of view provides a justly critical portrait of Mozart, and in so doing so it provides a commentary on ... Full Review
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F. Murray Abraham
Antonio Salieri
Tom Hulce
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Elizabeth Berridge
Constance Mozart
Simon Callow
Emanuel Schikaneder
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