Goya's Ghosts
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 Promotional poster for Goya's Ghosts. |
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| Directed by | Miloš Forman |
| Produced by | Mark Albela Denise O'Dell Paul Zaentz Saul Zaentz |
| Written by | Jean-Claude Carrière Miloš Forman |
| Starring | Natalie Portman Javier Bardem Stellan Skarsgård Randy Quaid |
| Distributed by | Kanzaman S.A.l |
| Language | English |
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Goya's Ghosts is a 2006 film directed by Academy Award winner Miloš Forman (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), produced by Saul Zaentz (The English Patient, Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and written by Miloš Forman and Jean-Claude Carrière. The film stars Academy Award nominee Natalie Portman, Academy Award nominee Javier Bardem, and Stellan Skarsgård, and was shot on location in Spain during late 2005.
Forman and Zaentz's previous collaborations, Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, won the team both Best Director and Best Picture Oscars in 1975 and 1984, respectively.
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[edit] Synopsis
In 1792 in Spain, amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution, renowned painter Francisco Goya becomes embroiled in the Spanish Inquisition after his beautiful muse Ines is accused of being a heretic and put on trial. Goya must beg for her life to be spared through his old friend Lorenzo, a power-hungry monk who is spearheading the revival of the Inquisition. Ines is imprisoned, tortured, and left to perish in the dungeons, while Lorenzo is eventually banished from the Spanish church. Some twenty years pass, and Goya is at the height of his creativity, but he has become deaf and somewhat insane. The three meet again after the French abolish the Inquisition and set the prisoners free, and Lorenzo becomes Napoleon's chief prosecutor against his former Spanish allies.
[edit] Cast
| Actor | Role |
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| Natalie Portman | Inés/Alicia |
| Javier Bardem | Brother Lorenzo |
| Stellan Skarsgård | Francisco Goya |
| Randy Quaid | King Carlos IV |
| Michael Lonsdale | Father Gregorio |
| Craig Stevenson | Napoleon Bonaparte |
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[edit] External links
- Official website
- Goya's Ghosts at the Internet Movie Database
- A Brief History of the Inquisition by Robert Jones
- Information on Goya including biography and images
- Photos at natalieportman.com
- A review of a rough cut of the film at AintItCoolNews.com
- Goya's Ghosts at Rotten Tomatoes
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