Basic Info
Title: Amadeus
Genre: Biography,
Drama, History
Country: United
States
Language: English
Production Company:
The Saul Zaentz Company
Distributed by:
Orion Pictures
Running time: 161 minutes
Release date: September 6, 1984 (Los Angeles), September 19, 1984 (United States)
Staff
Director: Miloš Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz
Screenplay: Peter
Shaffer
Based on: “Amadeus” by
Peter Shaffer
Music: John Strauss
Cinematography:
Miroslav Ondříček
Editor: Nena Danevic,
Michael Chandler
Cast
Tom Hulce (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
F. Murray Abraham (Antonio Salieri)
Elizabeth Berridge (Constanze
Mozart)
Roy Dotrice (Leopold Mozart)
Simon Callow (Emanuel Schikaneder)
Christine Ebersole (Caterina
Cavalieri)
Jeffrey Jones (Emperor Joseph II)
Charles Kay (Count Orsini-Rosenberg)
Summary
The “Amadeus” is a biographical drama
film produced in the United States in 1984, directed by Miloš Forman and adapted
by Peter Shaffer for his play "Amadeus." The film is a fictional
biographical story about the life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on the fictional
rivalry between Mozart and Salieri at the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna,
Austria during the latter half of the 18th century.
Mozart's music was used
extensively throughout the film. In the film, F. Murray Abraham appeared as Salieri and Tom Hulce as Mozart.
With this film, F. Murray Abraham won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and Tom
Hulce was nominated for the same award as Abraham.
Amadeus, considered one of the best
movies of all time, was nominated for 53 awards and received 40 awards,
including eight Academy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards. As of 2019, the
film Amadeus is also the most recent film to have been nominated more than once
in the Academy Award for Best Actor category.
In 1998, the American Film Institute
ranked the film 53rd on the list of “Best 100 films made for 100 Years”. In addition, in 2019, it was selected
for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of
Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Movie Review
"Remains the most popularly
successful film ever to render the inner life of an artist", L.A. Weekly
"Perfect pitch", San Francisco Chronicle
"Amadeus is about as close to
perfection as movies get", New York Daily
"It binds up introductory lessons in
music appreciation, Freudian psychology, and fanciful history with a pulp thriller
plot", Chicago Reader
Interesting stories about the film
1. When shooting the scene when Salieri is writing down the Requiem under Mozart's dictation, Tom Hulce intentionally skipped
lines to confuse F. Murray Abraham, in order to make the impression that Salieri
was not able to fully understand the music being dictated.
2. F. Murray Abraham learned to
read and conduct music for the role of the film.
3. In a scene from the film, Mozart
refers to Christoph Willibald Gluck as "boring" and says "I
don't like George Frideric Handel". However, Gluck and Handel were two of
Mozart's favorite composers.
4. It is assumed that the young boy
that Mozart smiles while playing the piano at the party is the young Beethoven.
5. Ironically, this film revived Salieri's
music, which had been previously forgotten.
6. The performance of "Don
Giovanni" included in this movie was filmed on the same stage where the
opera was premiered.
7. Milos Forman suggested that the
main actors of this film should not worry about the American accents that the
actors had, so that they could focus on the character and acting of their
roles.
8. Only four sets were made for
this film: Salieri's hospital room, Mozart's apartment, a staircase, and the
vaudeville theater. All other locations were filmed locally.
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