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Movie
language
English
duration
160 min
genre
drama
theme
biographical
director
Miloš Forman
Score
8 / 10

Amadeus is a 1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, starring F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce. Peter Shaffer adapted it from his 1979 stage play, inspired by Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play Mozart and Salieri. Shaffer described it as a "fantasia on [a real-life] theme", as it imagines a rivalry between two 18th-century Vienna composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce) and Antonio Salieri (Abraham). Salieri struggles to reconcile his professional admiration and jealous hatred for Mozart, and resolves to ruin Mozart's career as his form of vengeance against God.

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In 1823, aged composer Antonio Salieri attempts suicide and is committed to a psychiatric hospital. He claims that he murdered Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Father Vogler, a young Catholic priest, encourages Salieri to confess his sins before God. After Vogler fails to recognize him, Salieri plays three old melodies to jog his memory. Vogler cannot recognize the first two (which Salieri wrote) but is relieved to recognize the third (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) at once. Salieri peevishly reveals that Mozart wrote it.

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    award Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Amanda Award for Best Foreign Feature Film BAFTA Award for Best Editing BAFTA Award for Best Makeup and Hair BAFTA Award for Best Sound César Award for Best Foreign Film
    contentLocation Vienna
    director Miloš Forman
    editor Michael Chandler Nena Danevic
    genre drama
    keywords absolution absolve bore bury catholic priest chastity child prodigy confess his sins confession in the catholic church constanze constanze mozart divine inspiration don giovanni eine kleine nachtmusik flashback god god in christianity hear holy roman emperor inferiority complex juggle karl karl thomas mozart leopold leopold mozart lock meet murder pauper's grave psychiatric hospital requiem the magic flute the marriage of figaro think unreliable narrator vows of chastity write
    musicBy Antonio Salieri Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    nomination Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Costume Design Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama
    producer Saul Zaentz
    productionCompany The Saul Zaentz Company
    publisher Orion Pictures Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment
    recordedAt Austria Estates Theatre Invalidovna Praha St. Giles' Church Valdštejnská zahrada Vienna Wallenstein Palace
    theme biographical biographical drama