The story of the uncompromising artist and fighter for freedom, Domenicos Theotokopoulos, known to the world as "El Greco".
Cinematography
Every frame looks like an actual El Greco painting came alive
Production
Toledo recreated with obsessive, candlelit detail
Acting
Nick Ashdon's smolder could ignite the auto-da-fé
Director
Yannis Smaragdis
Nick Ashdon
El Greco
Juan Diego Botto
Niño de Guevara
Laia Marull
Jerónima de las Cuevas
Lakis Lazopoulos
Nikolos
Sotiris Moustakas
Titian
Dimitra Matsouka
Francesca
Dina Consta
Maid
Giorgos Hristodoulou
Duke Da Rimi
Dimitris Kalivokas
Chacon
Miquel Gelabert
Cardinal
Roger Coma
Father Paravicino
Alexia Moustaka
Lida Protopsalti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Yannis Smaragdis spent fifteen years trying to finance this, and the Greek government finally funded it as a national pride project. The irony of state-sponsored art about an artist fighting institutional power apparently lost on everyone.
El Greco was largely forgotten until the 19th century when modernists like Picasso and Cézanne 'rediscovered' him as a proto-expressionist. This film essentially argues they were right—he was always centuries ahead.
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