Amadeus - Director's Cut

Drama, Music

Jeffrey Jones	Emperor Joseph II
Tom Hulce	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Christine Ebersole	Katerina Cavalieri / Constanza in 'Abduction from the Seraglio'
Elizabeth Berridge	Constanze Mozart
Simon Callow	Emanuel Schikaneder / Papageno in 'The Magic Flute'
F. Murray Abraham	Antonio Salieri
Roy Dotrice	Leopold Mozart
Kenneth McMillan	Michael Schlumberg
Charles Kay	Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Lisbeth Bartlett
Barbara Byrne
Kenny Baker	Parody Commendatore

Director	Milos Forman
Producer	Saul Zaentz; Michael Hausman; Bertil Ohlsson
Writer	Peter Shaffer

Now seen in a Director's Cut including 20 minutes worth of scenes not seen in its original release, Amadeus remains a screen triumph: as sumptuous period epic, soaring celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and as the winner of eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture (produced by Saul Zaentz), Actor (F. Murray Abraham), Director (Milos Forman) and Adapted Screenplay (Peter Shaffer, from his play). In 1781 Vienna, court composer Antonio Salieri (Abraham) is maddened with envy after discovering that the divine musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on the bawdy, impish Mozart (Tom Hulce), whom he plots to destroy by any means necessary. And by means of cinematic craft and sublime music, we watch spellbound.