Title: Oscuro y Lucientes
Original Title: Oscuro y Lucientes
Year: 2018
Info
- Country: Spain France
- Length: 82 Minutes (1 hour 22 min)
- Genre: Documentary
- Studios: RTVE
- Distributor: Begin Again Films
Plot
'Oscuro y Lucientes' is a documentary co-produced between Spain and France. Samuel Alarcón directs this piece that tells the story of the death of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. Died during his French exile in 1828, his body was buried in the local cemetery of Bordeaux. Nobody from Spain, not even his family, claimed his body. Decades passed until the Spanish Consul in Bordeaux found by chance the tomb of the artist turned into ruin. After years of paperwork, the consul finally obtained permission to exhume the body and move it back to Spain. But when opening the tombstone, the surprise of everyone present was huge: Goya's head had disappeared. In words of the director: "It is a thriller with postcards, a puzzle of photographs, places, testimonies, police reports and paintings, in a documentary of creation dyed by the police genre".
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Trivia
Second documentary
'Oscuro y lucientes' is the second documentary of its director Samuel Alarcón, who debuted in 2009 with 'La ciudad de los signos'.
The origin of the documentary
According to the director, Samuel Alarcón, the germ of his documentary came when his father took him to visit the San Isidro Cemetery. There he showed him the tomb of Goya and told him that his body had arrived from France headless.
Féodor Atkine
The documentary is narrated by the actor Féodor Atkine.
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