Season 1 • Episode 6
LatestThe painter Francisco de Goya is witness to the disasters and horrors caused by the bloody resistance of the Spanish people to the French occupation during the Napoleonic wars.
Acting
Francisco Rabal embodies Goya's haunted silence with devastating precision.
Production
Reconstructs early 19th-century Spain with grim, painterly authenticity.
Writing
Semprún's scripts channel raw historical testimony into poetic dialogue.
Creators
Rafael Azcona, Jorge Semprún, Eduardo Chamorro
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series directly adapts Goya's 'The Disasters of War' etching series, created 1810-1820 but unpublished until 1863 due to political censorship.
Jorge Semprún, co-writer, was a Spanish Communist who survived Buchenwald; his personal trauma infuses the scripts with unsparing authenticity.
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