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Salieri is initially sullen and uninterested, but eventually warms to the priest and launches into a long "confession" about his relationship with Mozart. Placed in a lunatic asylum for the act, Salieri is visited by Father Vogler ( Richard Frank), a young priest who seeks to hear his confession.
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Murray Abraham) attempts suicide by slitting his throat while loudly begging forgiveness for having killed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Tom Hulce) in 1791.
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The story begins in 1823 as the elderly Antonio Salieri ( F. 6.3 More Music from the Original Soundtrack.In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked Amadeus 53rd on its 100 Years. As of 2016, it is the most recent film to have more than one nomination in the Academy Award for Best Actor category. The film was nominated for 53 awards and received 40, which included eight Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Directors Guild of America ( DGA) award. Historically, the Requiem, which was never finished, was commissioned by Count von Walsegg, and Salieri, far from being jealous of Mozart, was on good terms with him and even tutored his son after Mozart's death. Its central thesis is that Antonio Salieri, an Italian contemporary of Mozart is so driven by jealousy of the latter and his success as a composer that he plans to kill him and to pass off a Requiem, which he secretly commissioned from Mozart as his own, to be premiered at Mozart's funeral. Mozart's music is heard extensively in the soundtrack of the movie. The story, set in Vienna, Austria, during the latter half of the 18th century, is a fictionalized biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. $52 million (North America) Read the transcript Īmadeus is a 1984 American period drama film directed by Miloš Forman, adapted by Peter Shaffer from his stage play Amadeus.