Amadeus
Winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Actor and Director, this soaring, engrossing story of genius, jealousy and passion stars Tom Hulce as the gifted but childish prodigy Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as bitter rival Salieri. Brilliant musical sequences are set against the opulence of 18th-century Vienna; Milos Forman directs.
Year: 1984
Genre: Alice's 500 Greatest Films, Drama, True Stories, Academy Award - Best Picture, Director's Cut, Biography, Golden Globe - Drama
Country: USA
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: F Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay
Duration: 173 Minutes
Rating: PG - Contains low level violence.
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