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Painter Francisco Goya faces a scandal involving his muse, who is labeled a heretic by a monk.

As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya - played by the great Lithuanian actor Donatas Banionis (The Red Tent, Solaris) - has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma. Based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm. This release is the director's cut and shows the influence of great filmmakers from Buñuel and Saura, to Eisenstein. Goya was nominated for the Golden Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival.

After the Spanish Civil War breaks out, the Prado Museum is being evacuated. One of the guards finds a painting by the master, Goya, and takes it to prevent damage to the work of art. In the interim, he meets a young lady with whom he falls in love. Assisted by her and her family members, the soldier attempts to save Goya's masterpiece intact amidst the war and violence.

Provides a panorama of 2000 years of architecture, painting and sculpture, and studies the art masterpieces as reflections of the Western culture that produced them.

Goya's life in the most juicy dramatic stage of the painter's biography, when he is over forty years old and the first symptoms of his deafness are manifested. From her romantic relationships with the Duchess of Alba to the twilight of his exile in Bordeaux (France), the film recreates the most remarkable moments in the artist's career.

At 73, Spanish painter Goya abandons the royal court. At his country villa, he becomes friends with his housekeeper's daughter Rosarita who has a talent for drawing.

Goya freely painted the walls of his house with terrifying scenes in the last years of his life.

The Third of May is a 16-mm film about a man who mistakes himself for the character being shot in Francisco de Goya's painting The Shooting of May Third 1808.

Short documentary based on Goya paintings with the following additional subjects: the Ronda bullring, Antonio Ordóñez, Luis Segura and Ernest Hemingway.

Goya's the Naked Maja is slashed by an unseen force. As the trio travels to XIX century Spain to convince an old, bitter Goya to paint it again, they must deal with intrigues, broken hearts and the rise of a new, sinister enemy - not to mention Velazquez's usual stubbornness.