Amadeus

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

1984 • 160 min • Drama · History · Music

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Synopsis

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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Director: Miloš Forman • Crew: Peter Shaffer

Trailers & clips

The Treasure Hunt to Restore the Oscar-Winning Makeup From ‘Amadeus’!

The Oscar-winning Mozart biopic AMADEUS is now fully restored in 4K and showing in select cinemas.

Official UK 4K Restoration Trailer

Movie Clip - A Mask For the Dead

Movie Clip - Your Father is Dead

Movie Clip - Papa!

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Movie Clip - A Little Modesty Might Suit You Better

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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 Austria (Jeffery Jone...
Geronimo1967, TMDB Community

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_**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. “Amadeus” (19...
Wuchak, TMDB Community