Amadeus

Released Year: 1984

Certificate: R

Runtime: 160 minutes

Genre: Biography, Drama, History

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 88

Director: Milos Forman

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice

No of Votes: 369007

Gross: 51973029

Overview: The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.

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