Amadeus
L’homme… La musique… La folie… Le meurtre…
1984 • 160 min • Drama · History · Music
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 80 Audience · 4836 · 49%
Ce drame historique explore la rivalité intense entre deux compositeurs dans la Vienne du XVIIIe siècle : le discipliné Salieri et le brillant, flamboyant Mozart. Il aborde les thèmes de l'ambition, de la jalousie et du talent divin, présentant les triomphes et les tragédies de leurs vies. Le film offre une expérience visuelle et musicale riche.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 3/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 4/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 4/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Contenu suggestif et nudité
- Consommation fréquente d'alcool représentée
- Thèmes de jalousie et de détresse émotionnelle
- Une tentative de suicide est montrée
What it models well
- Le pouvoir du génie artistique
- La persévérance dans les activités créatives
- La beauté de la musique classique
Talk about it after
- La nature de l'envie et son pouvoir destructeur
- Comment la société reconnaît et récompense le talent
- Le contexte historique de la Vienne du XVIIIe siècle
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Top billed cast
Director: Miloš Forman • Crew: Peter Shaffer
F. Murray Abraham
Antonio Salieri
Tom Hulce
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Elizabeth Berridge
Constanze Mozart
Simon Callow
Emanuel Schikaneder
Roy Dotrice
Leopold Mozart
Christine Ebersole
Katerina Cavalieri
Jeffrey Jones
Emperor Joseph II
Charles Kay
Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Kenny Baker
Parody Commendatore
- L
Lisbeth Bartlett
Papagena
Trailers & clips
The Treasure Hunt to Restore the Oscar-Winning Makeup From ‘Amadeus’!
The Oscar-winning Mozart biopic AMADEUS is now fully restored in 4K and showing in select cinemas.
Official UK 4K Restoration Trailer
Movie Clip - A Mask For the Dead
Movie Clip - Your Father is Dead
Movie Clip - Papa!
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Movie Clip - A Little Modesty Might Suit You Better
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersRarely can I think of a more worthy multi-award winning performance than that from F. Murray Abraham in this masterfully crafted - if entirely speculative - retrospective on the life and times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (portrayed here by the astonishingly effective Tom Hulce). Abraham portrays the duplicitous, envious and malevolent Antonio Salieri, the court composer to Emperor Joseph II of Austria (Jeffery Jone...
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers_**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” (19...
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.0/10 (4,836)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $18,000,000
- Box office
- $90,007,557
- IMDb
- tt0086879
