The Painting

Andrés Sanz Vicente
2019-11-08

What is happening in that room?
7.3
107 min

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

Cast

Name Character Team
Eusebio Poncela The Man Unowned
Olivia Sanz Novoa The Girl Unowned
Jonathan Brown Himself - Historian Unowned
Manuela Mena Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Francisco Calvo-Serraller Himself - Historian Unowned
Javier Portús Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Eve Sussman Herself - Artist Unowned
Keith Christiansen Himself - MoMa Staff Member Unowned
Michael Gallagher Himself - MoMa Staff Member Unowned
Svetlana Alpers Herself - Art Historian Unowned
Fernando Marías Franco Himself - Art Historian Unowned
Enrique Quintana Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Félix de Azúa Himself - Writer Unowned
José Manuel Cruz Valdovinos Himself - Art Historian Unowned
Rocío Dávila Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Maite Dávila Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Carmen Garrido Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Valentín J. Alejándrez Himself - Writer Unowned
Matías Díaz Padrón Himself - Art Historian Unowned
Antonio Sáseta Himself - Architect Unowned
Jaime García-Máiquez Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member Unowned
Antonio López García Himself - Artist Unowned