Top billed cast

1. 

   F. Murray Abraham

   Antonio Salieri

2. 

   Tom Hulce

   Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3. 

   Elizabeth Berridge

   Constanze Mozart

4. 

   Simon Callow

   Emanuel Schikaneder

5. 

   Roy Dotrice

   Leopold Mozart

6. 

   Christine Ebersole

   Katerina Cavalieri

7. 

   Jeffrey Jones

   Emperor Joseph II

8. 

   Charles Kay

   Count Orsini-Rosenberg

9. 

   Kenny Baker

   Parody Commendatore

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written by Wuchak on 2020-12-20

_**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” (1984) is an entertaining costume drama that successfully takes you back to Vienna from 1783-1791. Mozart was basically the rock star of the era and some of his dynamic music even ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$18,000,000.00

Revenue
$90,007,557.00

Keywords

• opera
• composer
• musician
• marriage crisis
• italy
• talent
• emperor
• austria
• based on true story
• based on play or musical
• mozart
• god
• murder
• vienna, austria
• envy
• 18th century
• prodigy
• inspirational
• bitter