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Amadeus: Director's Cut (2 Disc Set)
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- Released
- 23/10/2002
- DVD Region
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2 (UK, Western Europe, Japan)
Also plays on multi-region DVD players
What region is right for me? - Film and TV Genre
- Drama, Historic
Description
AMADEUS - DIRECTOR'S CUT includes new footage that was not used in the 1984 original, as well as improved sound. 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. Based on the award-winning play by Peter Shaffer, Milos Forman's riveting, brilliant, Oscar-winning AMADEUS is a fictionalized account of the real-life mysterious death of Mozart. Abraham, in the role that won him the Best Actor Oscar, is the celebrated court composer to Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones)--his confidence and religious dedication shaken when he meets the boorish 26-year-old Mozart as he chases his future wife (Elizabeth Berridge) around a party while making obscene remarks. Furious that this clownish boy can produce such beautiful music, Salieri determines to keep Mozart's talent from lasting recognition and sets himself on a course for Mozart's destruction that leads to his own as well. Mozart continues to mount beautiful, moving operas (incredibly staged in the film), but becomes obsessed with writing a Requiem as his friends, family, health, and resources waste away, Salieri's manipulating presence always there. It is hard to imagine anyone--whether they are knowledgeable about classical music or not--who would not be held captive by this superb feast for the eyes and ears, a film whose excellence can be felt in every detail.
Plot Synopsis
The story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was coarse, bawdy, drunk, screeched like a child and yet was one of the greatest composers who ever lived.
Product Details
- Actors
- F. Murray Abraham
- Tom Hulce
- Elizabeth Berridge
- Simon Callow
- Roy Dotrice
- Director
- Milos Forman
- Language
- English
- CD WOW! Sales Rank
- #15543
- Award
- OSCAR - Best Actor In A Leading Role 1985
- OSCAR - Best Actor In A Leading Role 1985;F. Murray Abraham
- OSCAR - Best Director 1985
- OSCAR - Best Director 1985;Milos Forman
- OSCAR - Best Picture 1985
- OSCAR - Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1985
- OSCAR - Best Screenplay Based On Material Previously Produced Or Published 1985;Peter Shaffer
- Audio Format
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
- English Audio Commentary Dolby Digital
- Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 English
- Disc Features
- Featurette
- Interactive Menus
- Making Of
- Scene Selection
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio Commentary - 1. Milos Forman - Director and Peter Shaffer - Screenwriter
- Biographies - 1. Cast & Crew
- Documentary - 1. The Making of AMADEUS (37 minutes)
- Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
- Aspect Ratio
- 2.35:1
- Year of release
- 1984
- Media Format
- DVD-Video
- Film Format
- Anamorphic
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Film Rating (Australia)
- PG
- Run Time (minutes)
- 153
- Film Rating (UK)
- PG
- Colour System
- PAL
- Cast & Crew
- Peter Shaffer (Author)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer)
- Saul Zaentz (Producer)
- Peter Shaffer (Screenwriter)
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