from Orion Pictures
Directed by
Milos Forman
Starring
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)
Lisabeth Bartlett (Papagena)
Barbara Bryne (Fran Weber)
Martin Cavani (Young Salieri)
Roderick Cook (Count Von Struck)
Milan Demjanenko (Karl Mozart)
Peter DiGesu (Francesco Salieri)
Richard Frank (Father Vogler)
Patrick Hines (Kappelmeister Bonno)
Nicholas Kepros (Archbishop Colloredo)
Philip Lenkowsky (Salieri's Servant)
Herman Meckler (Priest)
Jonathan Moore (Baron Van Swieten)
Cynthia Nixon (Lorl)
Brian Pettifer (Hospital Attendant)
Vincent Schiavelli (Salieri's Valet)
Douglas Seale (Count Arco)
Miroslav Sekera (Young Mozart)
John Strauss (Conductor)
Karl-Heinz Teuber (Wig Salesman)
Written by
Peter Shaffer (also play)
Rated:  |
 A film biography of the Austrian
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) as seen through
the eyes of rival court composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham)
on the eve of Salieri's suicide. He is at once fiercely jealous
of and totally awestruck by the young Mozart, whose genius as
a composer undeniably exceeds that of any other writer Salieri
has heard -- including himself. Salieri's unbridled jealousy
of Mozart's soaring reputation, even as his own wanes, leads
him to try to drive Mozart to his death by anonymously commissioning
Mozart's final "Requiem Mass." Paradoxically, however,
it is the obsessed and resentful Salieri who can most truly appreciate
the brilliance of Mozart's revolutionary music. Elizabeth Berridge
plays Mozart's wife, Constanze.
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