Overview
- José Sacristán formally deposited a curated selection of personal and professional items in box 1.324 of the Instituto Cervantes’ Caja de las Letras, handing over objects that span his life and career.
- The ceremony included his wife Amparo Pascual and Instituto Cervantes director Luis García Montero and featured a public conversation with Natalia Menéndez and David Trueba where Sacristán reflected on his work.
- Among the items he gave were his grandfather’s black hat, a Cine 'Nic' projector, early theatre programs, play and film scripts, a visor from films he directed, and audio recordings of music and radio programs.
- Sacristán described the hat as a transformative object that helped him become other characters and summarized his approach as part Stanislavski and part Niña de los Peines to explain his method and stage presence.
- The deposit both caps a nearly seven-decade, award-filled career and creates primary-source material that scholars and the public can use to study Spanish performing arts and postwar cultural memory.