Salamanca setting for the documentary on Francisco de Goya «Oscuro y Lucientes»
In Salamanca, during one day, they will shoot several sequences in which a group of students will conduct various investigations into the event at the University's Historical Library
Salamanca Film Commission has collaborated with the production company regarding the processing of filming permits
Salamanca Film Commission has collaborated with the production company regarding the processing of filming permits
The production company Tourmalet Films, in co-production with TVE and Marmita Films (France), will record part of the documentary “Oscuro y Lucientes”, whose English title will be “Goya´s Skull”, tomorrow Tuesday in Salamanca. The work is directed by Samuel Alarcón and is based on the theft of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' skull. For the project, the production company will move a technical team of seven people from Madrid and Malaga, and the Historic Building of the University and the Patio de Escuelas Mayores will serve as the recording base.
The documentary begins with Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' thirteen-day agony and his death at the age of eighty-four in Bordeaux. Surrounded by exiled liberal companions, his body was buried in the Bordeaux cemetery of La Grande Chartreuse. No one from Spain, not even his family, claimed his body. Decades passed until the Spanish Consul in Bordeaux, Joaquín Pereyra, accidentally found Goya's ruined pantheon. After several years of procedures, in 1888 he obtained permission to exhume the corpse and transfer it to Spain. But upon opening the tombstone, the surprise of all those present was great: The tomb had been forced open and Goya's skull stolen. Who would want his head and for what purpose? Did some fetishist necrophiliac take it? Some phrenologist doctor? When and how did it happen?
In Salamanca, during one day, they will shoot several sequences in which a group of students will conduct various investigations into the event at the University's Historical Library.
Tourmalet Films is an audiovisual production company that began its work in 2011, based in Madrid and Malaga, and with a prolific career in the world of image, it already has 18 works, among which stand out music videos, documentaries, promotional pieces, and feature films. One of them, “Stockholm” (2013, Rodrigo Sorogoyen), holds a Goya award, in addition to wide national and international recognition at different festivals, as seen at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival where it won 5 awards. Salamanca Film Commission has collaborated with the production company regarding the processing of filming permits.
The documentary begins with Francisco de Goya y Lucientes' thirteen-day agony and his death at the age of eighty-four in Bordeaux. Surrounded by exiled liberal companions, his body was buried in the Bordeaux cemetery of La Grande Chartreuse. No one from Spain, not even his family, claimed his body. Decades passed until the Spanish Consul in Bordeaux, Joaquín Pereyra, accidentally found Goya's ruined pantheon. After several years of procedures, in 1888 he obtained permission to exhume the corpse and transfer it to Spain. But upon opening the tombstone, the surprise of all those present was great: The tomb had been forced open and Goya's skull stolen. Who would want his head and for what purpose? Did some fetishist necrophiliac take it? Some phrenologist doctor? When and how did it happen?
In Salamanca, during one day, they will shoot several sequences in which a group of students will conduct various investigations into the event at the University's Historical Library.
Tourmalet Films is an audiovisual production company that began its work in 2011, based in Madrid and Malaga, and with a prolific career in the world of image, it already has 18 works, among which stand out music videos, documentaries, promotional pieces, and feature films. One of them, “Stockholm” (2013, Rodrigo Sorogoyen), holds a Goya award, in addition to wide national and international recognition at different festivals, as seen at the Malaga Spanish Film Festival where it won 5 awards. Salamanca Film Commission has collaborated with the production company regarding the processing of filming permits.