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– The story revolves around Goya's womanising and the mysterious death of the Duchess of Alba at the e..
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.
01 Oct 1999
Spanish, French
Bigas Luna
Cuca Canals (screenplay), Bigas Luna, Jean-Louis Benoît (additional dialogue), Antonio Larreta (novel)
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà, Jorge Perugorría
On July 23 of 1802, the Duchess of Alba, the richest and most liberated woman of her time, offers a gala to inaugurate her new palace. Attendance is extraordinary: the Prime Minister Manuel Godoy, the painter Goya and Pepita Tudo, lover of Godoy and his model Goya's famous painting The Nude Maja. The next morning, the Duchess of Alba is found dead in her bed in mysterious circumstances. Based on the novel by Antonio Laretta.
3 wins & 7 nominations.
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