03 Oct 2003
The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.
The Painting
What is happening in that room?
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.
Top Billed Cast
Eusebio Poncela The Man
Olivia Sanz Novoa The Girl
Jonathan Brown Himself - Historian
Manuela Mena Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Francisco Calvo-Serraller Himself - Historian
Javier Portús Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Eve Sussman Herself - Artist
Keith Christiansen Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Michael Gallagher Himself - MoMa Staff Member
Svetlana Alpers Herself - Art Historian
Fernando Marías Franco Himself - Art Historian
Enrique Quintana Himself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Félix de Azúa Himself - Writer
José Manuel Cruz Valdovinos Himself - Art Historian
Rocío Dávila Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Maite Dávila Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Carmen Garrido Herself - Prado Museum Staff Member
Valentín J. Alejándrez Himself - Writer
Matías Díaz Padrón Himself - Art Historian
Antonio Sáseta Himself - Architect
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