Goya's Ghosts is a 2006 Spanish film directed by Academy Award winner Miloš Forman (Amadeus, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and produced by Xuxa Producciones (Spain) and 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 winner Javier Bardem, and Stellan Skarsgård, and was shot on location in Spain during late 2005. The film was written, produced and performed in English language although it is a Spanish production.
Two of Forman and Zaentz's previous collaborations, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, won the team both Best Director and Best Picture Oscars in 1975 and 1984, respectively.
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter. Written by Ploy P.
