Overview
The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th Centuries, at a time when Madrid was wobbling through a difficult time and setting the scene for the following Prim vs Crown uprising.
Director and cast
- Bigas Luna Director
- Aitana Sánchez-Gijón as Duquesa de Alba
- Penélope Cruz as Pepita Tudó
- Stefania Sandrelli as Marie Luisa de Parma
- Jordi Mollà as Don Manuel de Godoy "Príncipe de la Paz"
- Jorge Perugorría as Francisco Goya
- Empar Ferrer Cast
- Zoe Berriatúa Cast
- Jean-Marie Juan Cast
- Olivier Achard Cast
- Fermí Reixach Cast
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