

Amadeus
The man... The music... The madness... The murder... The motion picture.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $18M
- Box office
- $90M
- Language
- English
- opera
- composer
- musician
- marriage crisis
- italy
- talent
- emperor
- austria
- based on true story
- based on play or musical
- mozart
- god
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- PhysicalBlu-ray31 Jul 2013
United StatesUS
- PremiereWestwood, California6 Sept 1984
- PremiereNew York12 Sept 1984
- TheatricalPG19 Sept 1984
- TheatricalRDirector's cut19 Mar 2002
- PhysicalRDirector's Cut 180 minutes version24 Jul 2002
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG17 Jan 1985
- TheatricalDirector's cut26 Jul 2002
- PhysicalPG4K Ultra HD24 Feb 2025
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG1 Nov 1984
- TheatricalDirector's cut19 Sept 2010
CanadaCA
- TheatricalA19 Sept 1984
- PremiereDigital Film Festival6 Feb 2010
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical8 Nov 1984
- TheatricalRe-release27 Oct 1994
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical1829 Nov 1984
BrazilBR
- Theatrical148 Oct 1984
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)12+Director's cut, Projekt 10015 Jan 2003
- Theatrical12+Director's cut2 Mar 2017
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical112 Nov 1984
- Theatrical11Director's cut2 Aug 2002
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1219 Oct 1984
- TheatricalK-12Director's Cut6 Dec 2024
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP31 Oct 1984
- TheatricalTPDirector's cut12 Jun 2002
- PhysicalDVD12 Dec 2002
- PhysicalBlu-Ray23 Sept 2009
- Digital / OTTVOD15 Sept 2015
- Physical4K UHD12 Mar 2025
- TVFrance•512 Dec 2025
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Amadeus was released on 19 September 1984.
Audience reviews
2- W8/10
Wuchak
12/20/2020
_**Lively costume biography about Mozart’s last nine years in Austria**_ Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is a competent but mediocre composer in Vienna, Austria, in the late 1700s. He recognizes the God-given genius of the younger Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and struggles with bitter envy. The story is told in flashback as Salieri shares it with a cleric decades later at an asylum. “Amadeus” (1984)…
- C8/10
CinemaSerf
1/7/2023
Rarely can I think of a more worthy multi-award winning performance than that from F. Murray Abraham in this masterfully crafted - if entirely speculative - retrospective on the life and times of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (portrayed here by the astonishingly effective Tom Hulce). Abraham portrays the duplicitous, envious and malevolent Antonio Salieri, the court composer to Emperor Joseph II of Austria (Jeffery Jones).…
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