Goya's ghosts

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Movie
German title Goya's ghosts
Original title Los fantasmas de Goya
Country of production Spain
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Miloš Forman
script Jean-Claude Carrière
Miloš Forman
production Paul Zaentz
Saul Zaentz
music José Nieto
camera Javier Aguirresarobe
cut Adam Boome
occupation

Goyas Geister (Original title: Los fantasmas de Goya ) is a Spanish drama film by Miloš Forman in his last directorial work from 2006.

action

The film takes place in Spain between the years 1792 and 1809. The young bourgeois daughter Inés is the muse of the painter Francisco de Goya , who works as a court painter. The Inquisition falsely accuses them of heresy . Inés is arrested and tortured. Despite requests from Goya and Inés' parents, she is not released. The Father Lorenzo takes advantage of Inés' helpless situation and raped in prison Dahinvegetierende several times. Inés' parents ambush Lorenzo and use torture methods similar to those used by the Inquisition to force him to sign a document stating that he is a monkey, to prove the nonsense of confessions obtained under torture. When this document is published by Inés' father, Lorenzo is declared a heretic by the Church and has to flee Spain.

Fifteen years later, when Napoléon invades Spain, Lorenzo, Goya and Inés meet again. Lorenzo has become an advocate of the ideals of the French Revolution in France and is returning as chief prosecutor against the Inquisition. Inés, who was released when the Inquisition dungeons opened, finds that her family was killed in the turmoil of the occupation. She goes to Goya. It turns out that Lorenzo has with Inés the daughter Alicia, a prostitute, born of the rape in prison. Lorenzo succeeds in preventing the two from reuniting further by admitting Inés to a mental hospital and later having Alicia captured along with other prostitutes. When the British crossed the Spanish border under Wellington , Lorenzo was captured while fleeing and sentenced to death by the rehabilitated dignitaries of the Inquisition. Inés, meanwhile mentally deranged, cheers him at the execution, an abandoned child in her arms that she thinks is her daughter. Alicia is also present at the execution, in fine robe and at the side of a British officer from the balcony of an elegant palace.

In the final scene Inés follows the hangman's cart through a side street of the city, holding the dead Lorenzo's hand and followed by the decrepit and limping Goya.

Reviews

Epd Film wrote that the film was a " historical arc of images about the monk Lorenzo, who was transformed into an atheist under the pressure of the political situation ". The film is " properly staged " and does not show the " depths " of Larry Flynt - The Naked Truth .

The magazine TV-Digital wrote that this was a historical film with juice and strength and significantly better than Perfume - The Story of a Murderer .

Critic.de wrote that Forman understands the " painter's eye primarily as an observer's eye and the works of art as documents of the time, to which the fictional story refers, especially in the opening and closing credits ".

Awards

The film was nominated for the Goya film award in 2007 for the costumes (Yvonne Blake), the make-up (Ivana Primorac, Susana Sánchez and Manuel García) and the special effects (Reyes Abades, Félix Berges and Eduardo Díaz) . Another nomination for costume designer Yvonne Blake followed at the Satellite Awards 2007 .

background

The film was shot in Madrid , Salamanca and Segovia . In Spain, the film opened in cinemas on November 8, 2006, and the German release was on November 23, 2006.

In the film, the painting The Colossus can be seen on a screen in Goya's studio , which, according to the latest findings of the Prado Museum, should be the work of Goya's student Asensio Juliá.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age identification for Goya's ghosts . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ See critic.de
  3. ↑ Filming locations for Goya's Ghosts
  4. ↑ Start dates for Goya's Ghosts
  5. ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/its-official-goya-work-was-painted-by-his-pupil-855408.html ( Memento from April 7, 2009 in Internet Archive )

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