Direction: Fèlix Colomer Vallès
Production/TV: 3Cat in collaboration with Producciones del K.O.
Country: Spain
Year: 2025
Genre/subgenre: Documental
Channel: TV3 and 3Cat platform
Duration: 38 min
SYNOPSIS
In 1830, on the very day of his funeral, an African man was exhumed from his grave, dissected, and taken to Europe to be displayed to the public. In 1916, he arrived at the Darder Museum in Banyoles, where, years later, he would become the center of an international diplomatic conflict during the preparations for the Barcelona Olympic Games. The documentary The Black Man Has a Name reconstructs the extraordinary and shocking story of this man and holds up an uncomfortable mirror to our recent memory.
The man known as the “Black Man of Banyoles” had a name. He always had one, but until today it remained a mystery. First, because of the dehumanization that marked his exhumation and subsequent public display. Then, because of the difficulties in identifying a person who died in the 19th century more than 7,000 km away from Catalonia.
