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Milos Forman's riveting, brilliant, Oscar-winning AMADEUS is a fictionalized account of the real-life mysterious death of Mozart. Tom Hulce starts as Mozart, with F. Murray Abraham as turning in an Oscar winning performance as the brilliant composer's adversary, Salieri.

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ProducerSaul Zaentz

EAN7321900362184

eBay Product ID (ePID)3947248

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ActorTom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

Film/TV TitleAmadeus

DirectorMilos Forman

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\English

Run Time153 Mins

Aspect Ratio2.35 Wide Screen

Release Year1998

FormatDVD

FeaturesInteractive Menus\Extensive Production Notes\Scene Access\Music only Soundtrack, Widescreen, Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreDrama

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificatePG

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Production DesignerPatrizia von Brandenstein

AwardsBest Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1985 - Peter Shaffer, Best Actor In A Leading Role 1984 - F. Murray Abraham, Best Picture 1984 -, Best Director 1984 - Milos Forman

Executive ProducerBertil Ohlsson, Michael Hausman

Additional InformationIn a lavish 18th Century parlor in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). Later. from his cell in an insane asylum, Salieri tells a priest (Herman Meckler) the story of his association with Mozart, confessing that he actually killed the brilliantly gifted but troubled young man. Based on the award-winning play by Peter Shaffer, Milos Forman's riveting, brilliant, Oscar-winning AMADEUS is a fictionalized account of the real-life mysterious death of Mozart. Abraham, in the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar, is the celebrated court composer to Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones)--his confidence and religious dedication shaken when he meets the boorish 26-year-old Mozart as he chases his future wife (Elizabeth Berridge) around a party while making obscene remarks. Furious that this clownish boy can produce such beautiful music, Salieri determines to keep Mozart's talent from lasting recognition and sets himself on a course for Mozart's destruction that leads to his own as well. Mozart continues to mount beautiful, moving operas (incredibly staged in the film), but becomes obsessed with writing a Requiem as his friends, family, health, and resources waste away, Salieri's manipulating presence always there. In a lavish 18th Century parlour in Austria, an elderly man is found, by his servant, with his throat slashed. The wound is self-inflicted, and the man is the little-known composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), contemporary and adversary of the now-famed, but once reviled, composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce). Later. from his cell in an insane asylum, Salieri tells a priest (Herman Meckler) the story of his association with Mozart, confessing that he actually killed the brilliantly gifted but troubled young man. <BR>Based on the award-winning play by Peter Shaffer (writer of SLEUTH and THE WICKER MAN), director Milos Forman's riveting, brilliant, Oscar-winning AMADEUS is a fictionalized account of the real-life mysterious death of Mozart. Abraham, in the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar, is the celebrated court composer to Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones)--his confidence and religious dedication shaken when he meets the boorish 26-year-old Mozart as he chases his future wife (Elizabeth Berridge) around a party while making obscene remarks. Furious that this clownish boy can produce such beautiful music, Salieri determines to keep Mozart's talent from lasting recognition and sets himself on a course for Mozart's destruction that leads to his own as well. Mozart continues to mount beautiful, moving operas (incredibly staged in the film), but becomes obsessed with writing a Requiem as his friends, family, health, and resources waste away, Salieri's manipulating presence always there. It is hard to imagine anyone

ReviewsNew York Times - ...[Hulce] gets better and better....[Forman] has preserved the fascinating heart of [the play]....Well done., Variety - ...AMADEUS is loaded with pleasures....[Abraham] is quietly excellent..., Sight and Sound - ...An unexpected and strangely moving spectacle...

ScreenwriterPeter Shaffer

MakeupDick Smith

Format DescriptionDVD 10

Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1

Movie/TV TitleAmadeus

Director of PhotographyMiroslav Ondricek