Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Amadeus / presented by the Saul Zaentz Company ; original stage play and screenplay by Peter Shaffer ; produced by Saul Zaentz ; directed by Milos Forman.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 1997.

Description:

1 videodisc (160 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Views the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the memories of an envious rival, Salieri.orus ; the Choristers of Westminster Abbey ; the Twyla Tharp Dance Company.

Audience

Rated PG

Cast

F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice, Christine Ebersole, Jeffrey Jones, Charles Kay ; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Academy Chorus of St. Martin-in-the-Fields ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; the Choristers of Westminster Abbey ; the Twyla Tharp Dance Company.sian Opera Chorus ; the Choristers of Westminster Abbey ; the Twyla Tharp Dance Company.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1984.

Dates vary: in credits, c1984; on container, c1984, c1997.

Special features: scene index, cast & crew, behind the scenes, casting, musical notes, Salieri and Mozart, Mozart chronology, locations, awards, alternate music-only soundtrack, theatrical trailer.

Director of photography, Miroslav Ondricek; choreography, Twyla Tharp; production design, Patrizia Von Brandenstein; art direction, Karel Cerny; opera sets designed by Josef Svoboda; costume design, Theodor Pistek; editors, Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler; music, W.A. Mozart; music conducted and supervised by Neville Marriner; music coordinator, John Strauss; executive producers, Michael Hausman, Bertil Ohlsson.

DVD.

Subjects:

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.

English drama -- 20th century -- Television adaptations.

English drama -- 20th century -- Film adaptations.

Composers -- Austria -- Vienna -- Drama.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Musical films.

Historical films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.