Goya's Skull (2018)

overview : Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on April 16th and is buried in the local cemetery. Nobody, not even his only living son, Javier, claims his body. In 1888, after years of paperwork, the Spanish consul Pereyra finally obtains permission to exhume Goya's remains with the purpose to bury them in Spain. When the crypt is opened, the gravediggers make a discovery as macabre as it is stunning…

Release Date : Nov 16, 2018

Runtime : 1h 23m

Genre : Documentary  History  

Companies : Tourmalet Films, Marmitafilms, France 3, TVE

Countries : France, Spain

Keywords : bordeaux, france, 19th century, exhumation, male corpse, exiled artist, spanish painter