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.
Directed by Bigas Luna
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Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Cayetana, Duquesa de Alba
Penélope Cruz
Pepita Tudó "la Maja"
Jordi Mollà
Don Manuel de Godoy "Príncipe de la Paz"
Jorge Perugorría
Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes
Stefania Sandrelli
Reina María Luisa de Parma
Empar Ferrer
Catalina Barajas
Zoe Berriatúa
Príncipe Fernando
Jean-Marie Juan
Pignatelli
Olivier Achard
Grognard
Fermí Reixach
Cardenal
Chema Mazo
Jefe de Policía (as José María Mazo)
María Alonso
Condesa de Chinchón
José Cantero
Médico Durán
Alberto García Demestres
Isidoro Maiquez (as Alberto Demestres)
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