Genre: Drama, Biography, Period Piece, Tragedy, Murder, Marriage, Mental Institution, Satire
Tagline: The Man... The Music... The Madness... The Murder... The Motion Picture...
Plot: It''s 1781 and Antonio Salieri is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II. When Mozart arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Mad with envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by any means. Perhaps, even murder.On a November night in 1823 a distracted old man offers from his window an appalling confession to the city of Vienna: "Forgive me, Mozart. Forgive your assassin." Moments later he attempts suicide, and is rushed through the snowy streets to the General Infirmary, a grim building containing all manner of sick and desperate patients. Some weeks afterwards, confined in a private room, he is visited by the Hospital Chaplain, Father Vogler. While obviously contemptuous of the priest, the old man is drawn to confess to him. His story, told throughout one night, forms the substance of the film. The old man is ANTONIO SALIERI, once the most famous musician in Vienna. A small town Italian lad from Legnago, he worked his way up to becoming Court Composer to Emperor Joseph II, brother of Marie Antoinette and lover, in a limited way, of music. All his early life Salieri had been possessed by one driving desire: to serve God through music. As a boy he made a solemn
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Miloš Forman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt |
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 | Simon Callow
Shakespeare in Love, The Phantom of the Opera, Four Weddings and a Funeral |
 | Jeffrey Jones
Sleepy Hollow, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Hunt for Red October |
 | Tom Hulce
Animal House, Parenthood, Frankenstein | | Roy Dotrice
Swimming with Sharks, The Cutting Edge, The Scarlet Letter | | |
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