What Charleton Heston did for Michelangelo and Kirk Douglas did for Van Gogh, what's-his-name does for Mozart. Filmed in Prague (Vienna doesn't look enough like Vienna?) with production values usually reserved for Spielberg and Lucas, the movie has its occasional convincing moments (the excerpt from "The Magic Flute" captures what must surely have been the rowdy atmosphere in a Viennese musical hall in the 1790s), it's fitting that the Oscar went not to what's-his-name for his bad-boy Mozart but to Murray Abraham as Salieri, villain extraordinaire.

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