El Greco (2007) on Netflix
Domenicos Theotokopoulos, the Cretan painter the world calls El Greco, leaves home in search of freedom and love. Venice brings him Titian and a priest, Fernando Niño de Guevara.
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Domenicos Theotokopoulos, an uncompromising painter from Crete, wants freedom and love. The island then belonged to Venice, and he falls for Francesca, whose father is the Venetian governor there; when his own father prepares a political rebellion, Domenicos sails for Venice and leaves her. Venice gives him the painter Titian and the Spanish priest Fernando Niño de Guevara. His beliefs have already made him enemies in Rome, and he moves to Toledo, where the Spanish Inquisition, with Guevara as its Grand Inquisitor, stands against him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about El Greco (2007)
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- The film's story, in which El Greco is tried by the Spanish Inquisition, is entirely fictional: the real painter was never prosecuted and instead received well-paid commissions from grand inquisitor Fernando Niño de Guevara, who led the Inquisition in Spain from 1600 to 1602.
- Vangelis's score for El Greco was his third project about the painter, following the 1995 album Foros Timis Ston Greco and a 1998 expansion of that album with three more tracks, also titled El Greco.
