What is Amadeus (movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = Amadeus | image = | caption = | director = [[Miloš Forman]] | producer = [[Saul Zaentz]] | writer = [[Peter Shaffer]]<br>[[Zdeněk Mahler]] {{small|(Assistant)}} | starring = [[F. Murray Abraham]]<br>[[Tom Hulce]]<br>[[Elizabeth Berridge (actress)|Elizabeth Berridge]] | music = [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] | cinematography = [[Miroslav Ondříček]] | editing = [[Michael Chandler (movie editor)|Michael Chandler]] | distributor = [[Orion Pictures]] | released = {{start date|1984|9|19}} | runtime = '''Theatrical release'''<br/>161 minutes<br/>'''Director's cut'''<br/>180 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = $18 million | gross = $51,973,029 }} '''''Amadeus''''' is a 1984 [[United States|American]] [[biographical movie|biographical]] [[period drama]] [[movie]] [[movie director|directed]] by [[Miloš Forman]]. It won eight [[Academy Award|Oscars]]. This is a [[biography]] of two great music [[composer]]s - [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] and [[Antonio Salieri]]. Salieri knows Mozart is a great composer but tries to stop him out of [[jealousy]]. The movie was shot on location in [[Prague]], [[Kroměříž]] and [[Vienna]]. Notably, Forman was able to shoot scenes in the [[Estates Theatre|Count Nostitz Theatre]] in Prague, where ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' and ''[[La Clemenza di Tito]]'' were first shown two centuries before. Several other scenes were shot at the [[Barrandov Studios]]. ==Cast== * [[F. Murray Abraham]] as [[Antonio Salieri]] * [[Tom Hulce]] as [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]] * [[Elizabeth Berridge (actress)|Elizabeth Berridge]] as [[Constanze Mozart]] * [[Roy Dotrice]] as [[Leopold Mozart]] * [[Simon Callow]] as [[Emanuel Schikaneder]] * [[Richard Frank (actor)|Richard Frank]] as Father Vogler * [[Christine Ebersole]] as [[Caterina Cavalieri]] * [[Jeffrey Jones]] as [[Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Joseph II]] * [[Charles Kay]] as Count [[Orsini-Rosenberg]] * [[Cynthia Nixon]] as Lorl, Mozart's maid * [[Roderick Cook]] as Count Von St