Year			2002
Genre			Drama
Parents			Nudity, sexual content
Length			2:38
Director			Milos Forman
Writer			Peter Shaffer
Company			Orion Pictures Corporation
Starring			F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce Elizabeth Berridge Simon Callow Roy Dotrice Christine Ebersole Show more... F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce Elizabeth Berridge Simon Callow Roy Dotrice Christine Ebersole Jeffrey Jones Charles Kay Kenny Baker Lisabeth Bartlett Barbara Bryne Martin Cavina Roderick Cook Milan Demjanenko

Described by Shaffer as "a fantasia based on fact," Amadeus was inspired by persistent rumors in the early 19th Century that Mozart had been poisoned by his rival Salieri, a successful court composer driven mad by the revelation of his own mediocrity when compared to Mozart's God-given genius. Transcending both Salieri and Mozart are the universal themes they represent: the relationship between man and God; the difficulty of serving a God whose ways are often perceived as irrational, perverse and mockingly cruel; the confrontation of genius and mediocrity; and as in the tragic case of Mozart, the sad spectacle of a towering genius poorly rewarded and pushed to destruction by society.