Amadeus

1984 · Movie · 158 min. · United States

In 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.

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Tom Hulce · F. Murray Abraham · Elizabeth Berridge · Simon Callow · Roy Dotrice · Christine Ebersole · Jeffrey Jones · Charles Kay · Richard Frank · Cynthia Nixon · Vincent Schiavelli · Kenneth McMillan · Kenny Baker