“Amadeus” quotes
(1984)
Title Amadeus
Year 1984
Director Milos Forman
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 1984
Director Milos Forman
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Plot – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits Joseph II thanks to Salieri, the current court musician. Mozart obtains in a short of time a great success with his talent, but he makes some enemies and jealousies as well: Salieri in fact begins to hate him. He admires Mozart's music but considers his behaviour insolent and his language indecent. The pianist however gains many triumphes, while Salieri swears to himself that he will not rest in peace until his rival is dead. After a great success, Mozart becomes poor and his wife Constance abandons him. He's commissioned a Requiem but has to dictate it to Salieri because he's too sick to write. All these facts are narrated by Salieri himself who, aged and closed in a hospice, is still without peace.
All actors – F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay, Kenneth McMillan, Kenny Baker, Lisbeth Bartlett, Barbara Bryne, Martin Cavina, Roderick Cook, Milan Demjanenko, Peter DiGesu, Richard Frank, Patrick Hines, Nicholas Kepros, Philip Lenkowsky, Herman Meckler, Jonathan Moore, Cynthia Nixon, Brian Pettifer, Vincent Schiavelli, Douglas Seale, Miroslav Sekera, Cassie Stuart, John Strauss, Karl-Heinz Teuber, Rita Zohar, Miro Grisa, Helena Cihelnikova, Karel Gult, Zuzana Kadlecova, Magda Celakovska, Slavena Drasilova, Eva Senková, Leos Kratochvil, Gino Zeman, Janoslav Mikulín, Ladislav Krecmer, Karel Fiala, Jan Blazek, Zdenek Jelen, Milada Cechalova, John Carrafa, Sara Clifford, Richard Colton, Shelley Freydont, Anne Glasner, Barbara Hoom, Mary Kellogg, Raymond Kurshals, John Malashock, Jennifer Rawe, Tom Rawe, William Whitener, Hana Brejchová, Miriam Chytilová, Karel Effa, Radka Fiedlerová, Rene Gabzdyl, Karel Hábl, Atka Janousková, Marta Jarolimkova, Gabriela Krckova, Vladimir Krousky, Jirí Krytinár, Radka Kucharova, Jan Kuzelka, Jirí Lír, Lenka Loubalová, Dagmar Maskova, Ladislav Mikes, Jitka Molavcová, Jana Musilová, Vojtech Nalezenec, Pavel Nový, Jiri Opsatko, Jan Pohan, Therese Herz, Ivan Pokorny, Milan Riehs, Iva Sebkova, Zdenek Sklenar, Renata Vackova, Jiri Vancura, Dana Vávrová, Petra Vogelova, Josef Zeman, , June Anderson, Isobel Buchanan, Michele Esposito, Gillian Fisher, Anne Howells, Brian Kay, Robin Leggate, Felicity Lott, Zdenek Mahler, Suzanne Murphy, Alexander Oliver, Patricia Payne, Samuel Ramey, Deborah Rees, Richard Stilwell, Vladimír Svitácek, John Tomlinson, Willard White
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“Astounding! It was actually, it was beyond belief. These were first and only drafts of music, but they showed no corrections of any kind. Not one. He had simply written down music already finished in his head!”
“It's unbelievable, the director has actually torn up a huge section of my music. They say I have to rewrite the opera. But it's perfect as it is! I can't rewrite what's perfect!”
“- Antonio Salieri: Mozart, it was good of you to come!
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: How could I not?
- Antonio Salieri: How... did my work please you?
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: I never knew that music like that was possible!
- Antonio Salieri: You flatter me.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: No, no! One hears such sounds, and what can one say but......” (continue)(continue reading)
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