Product Details

• Actors: Donatas Banionis, Olivera Vuco, Fred Düren
• Directors: Konrad Wolf
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Restored, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: German
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
• DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
• Run Time: 134 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001DYRL7M
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #111,872 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of DEFA's most spectacular and colorful productions, GOYA is an epic bio-pic of Reason and Madness in the Age of Absolutism and Revolution. --Larson Powell, Film Historian, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Product Description

Newly restored to it's full lush color, this tour de force about the brilliant Spanish painter Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis ('Solaris') - is one of only ten East German films shot in 70mm. This digitally restored director's cut by Konrad Wolf, the acclaimed director of 'I was Nineteen' and 'Solo Sunny', shows the influence of great filmmakers from Buñuel and Saura to Eisenstein.

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation, and has fallen in love with a beautiful Duchess. But he also finds himself becoming more and more but finds himself increasingly drawn away from the castle, to portray the desires and nightmares of the common Spanish people. After a singer he meets in a tavern is hauled before the Inquisition for singing revolutionary songs, the nightmares of his paintings threaten to become a reality.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Digitally Restored, November 28, 2008

By	Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

"Goya"

Digitally Restored

Amos Lassen

Konrad Wolf's beautiful film about the legendary Spanish painter, Goya, is now available in a digitally restored format from First Run Features.
Donates Bunions, a Lithuanian actor, portrays the artist who had huge successes at the court of King Carlos. Goya amassed great wealth and a wonderful reputation as well as the love of the Duchess. Yet even in his respected position, Goys loved to paint about the suffering of the Spanish populace. Their nightmares became the focus of his work. He managed to upset the leaders of the Spanish inquisition and found himself with an enemy whose aim it was to make Spain devoid of undesirables like himself.
The film is a visual stunner which brings madness and reason into an age when absolutism reigned. Here is a film that will show you man's intolerance to man and a small voice that cried out for justice. Most equate Goya with his artistic output and do not think of him as a man who fought for the rights of man. Here is a look at the man and the period which in many ways changed the course of history.