Goya's Ghosts
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Promotional poster for Goya's Ghosts
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| Directed by | Miloš Forman |
| Produced by | Saul Zaentz |
| Written by | Miloš Forman Jean-Claude Carrière |
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Javier Bardem Natalie Portman Stellan Skarsgård Randy Quaid Unax Ugalde |
| Music by | Varhan Orchestrovič Bauer |
| Cinematography | Javier Aguirresarobe |
| Edited by | Adam Boome |
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The Saul Zaentz Company
Kanzaman Antena 3 Televisión Xuxa Producciones |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (Spain) Entertainment Film (UK) Samuel Goldwyn Films (US) |
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Running time
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114 minutes |
| Country | Spain United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $9,448,082 |
Goya's Ghosts is a 2006 Spanish-American film, directed by Miloš Forman, and written by him and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgård, and was filmed on location in Spain during late 2005. The film was written, produced, and performed in English although it is a Spanish production.
Although the historical setting of the film is authentic, the story about Goya trying to defend a model is fictional, as are the characters Brother Lorenzo and the Bilbatúa family.
In 1792, Spain reels amid the turmoil and upheaval of the French Revolution. Francisco Goya (Stellan Skarsgård) is a renowned painter, who, among others, does portraits for the royal family as the Official Court Painter to the King and Queen.
The Spanish Inquisition is disturbed by part of Goya's work. Brother Lorenzo Casamares (Javier Bardem) is hiring Goya to paint a portrait and defends him, saying that his works are not evil, they just show evil. He recommends the Church step up the fight against anti-Catholic practices. He requests and is put in charge of intensifying the Inquisition.
When posing in Goya's studio, Lorenzo asks Goya about a young model he uses, Inés (Natalie Portman), daughter of a rich merchant, Tomás Bilbatúa (José Luis Gómez) who also has a son named Ángel (Unax Ugalde). Inés is spotted by Inquisition spies (trained by Lorenzo) declining a dish of pork in a tavern. The Holy Office of the Inquisition orders Inés to come to the office. There she is arrested and accused of "judaizing", i.e. spreading Jewish rituals, because she did not eat pork the other evening. She is stripped naked and tortured by strappado ("put to The Question"), confesses, and is imprisoned. Naturally, the Inquisition's archives had already revealed that one of her father's ancestors had converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1624 upon arrival in Spain from Amsterdam.
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