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Amadeus - The Directors Cut
Release
Date: July 26th 2oo2
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Certificate: TBC
Starring: Elizabeth Berridge, F Murray Abraham, Jeffrey Jones, Tom
Hulce
Director: Milos
Forman
Running Time:
128 minutes
'Amadeus,
The Director's Cut', is the 2002 Special Edition based on Sir Peter Shaffer's
London and Broadway stage hit. The film includes 20 additional minutes of
drama, music and sound not included in the 1984 release, all of whch were
added with the enthusiastic approval of the director Milos Forman, Sir Peter
Shaffer and producer Saul Zaentz. In 1985 the original theatrical release of Amadeus won 8 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham, Best Screenplay Adaptation for Peter Shaffer, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up and Best Sound.
The
story starts in 1823 as a distracted old man offers an appalling confession
to the city of Vienna: "Forgive me, Mozart. Forgive your assassin."
He then attempts suicide, and is rushed to the Hospital. And it is this
man, Antonio Salieri (Abraham), through whose eyes the story is told.Once the most famous musician in Vienna, Salieri's life as Court Composer to Emperor Joseph II was changed forever when in 1781 a young man arrived - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Hulce).
Already
famous as a prodigy at the age of six, Mozart was toured throughout Europe
by his dominating father Leopold (Roy Dotrice), showing off musical tricks
for the amusement of the aristocracy. Now at age 26, the young man is
far more than a performing monkey. He has become a composer, eager to
show off his abilities. Salieri hears that Mozart is to give a concert
of his music at the residence of his employer the Archbishop of Salzburg,
and hurries there to hear it. That night changes his life.
Accidentally seeing this new maestro, Salieri discovers that he is a sniggering,
unattractive little show-off, an infantile genius Throughout the next years,
Salieri meets with Mozart on several occasions, and each time he is rudely
insulted, and when Emperor Joseph IIdecides to show an additional mark of
favor to Mozart by proposing him as a teacher of music to his royal niece,
Salieri decides to block the appointment. And little by little he manages to take Mozart down into poverty and sickness...
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