Víctor Erice Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Víctor Erice

Víctor Erice

Directing

Biography

Víctor Erice Aras (Spanish: [ˈbiɣtoɾ eˈɾiθe]; born 30 June 1940; Karrantza) is a Spanish film director. He is best known for his two feature fiction films, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), which many regard as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made, and El Sur (1983). Erice was born in Karrantza, Biscay. He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid. He also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction. He wrote film criticism and reviews for the Spanish film journal Nuestro Cine, and made a series of short films before making his first feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a critical portrait of 1940s rural Spain. Erice was among other filmmakers, such as Luis Buñuel, who lived in “such restricted societies as Franco’s Spain,” to take aim at the authoritarian rule in power. At the time his first film was released in 1973, Francisco Franco was still in power. One of the things The Spirit of the Beehive is known for is its use of symbolism to portray what life was like in Spain under Franco’s rule. Setting the movie in 1940, at the start of Franco’s rule, was a risk for Erice, given that the film “wasn't a propagandist effort in which stalwart Francoists won victories against evil, priest-massacring Republicans.” Ten years later, Erice wrote and directed El Sur (1983), based on a story from Adelaida García Morales, another highly regarded film, although the producer Elías Querejeta only allowed him to film the first two-thirds of the story. His third movie, The Quince Tree Sun (1992) is a documentary about painter Antonio López García. The film won the Jury Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. In July 2022, thirty years after his last full-length film, a project for a new Erice film (Cerrar los ojos) supported by Pecado Films, Tándem Films, Nautilus as well as Canal Sur was revealed to be in development. The film premiered in the following year at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was met with very positive reviews. He was a member of the jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May. At the 2014 Locarno Film Festival, Erice was awarded with a Golden Leopard award for lifetime achievement.

Filmography Movies

Acting

Don't Expect Too Much movie poster
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Don't Expect Too Much

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Don't Expect Too Much
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Antoñito vuelve a casa movie poster
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Antoñito vuelve a casa

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Antoñito vuelve a casa
La Morte Rouge movie poster
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La Morte Rouge

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La Morte Rouge
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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine movie poster
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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

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Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
The Footprints of a Spirit movie poster
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The Footprints of a Spirit

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The Footprints of a Spirit
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Victor Erice in MadridMOVIE
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Victor Erice in Madrid

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Victor Erice in Madrid
Interviewee
Versión Española: Victor EriceMOVIE
MOVIE

Versión Española: Victor Erice

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Versión Española: Victor Erice
Interviewee
Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retoursMOVIE
MOVIE

Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours

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Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours
Wiara movie poster
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Wiara

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Wiara
Self
Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences movie poster
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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

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Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
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Production

The Spirit of the Beehive movie poster
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The Spirit of the Beehive

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The Spirit of the Beehive
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet movie poster
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet movie poster
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
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Los días perdidos movie poster
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Los días perdidos

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Los días perdidos
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El Sur movie poster
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El Sur

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El Sur
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Dream of Light movie poster
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Dream of Light

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Dream of Light
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Historic Centre movie poster
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Historic Centre

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Historic Centre
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La Morte Rouge movie poster
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La Morte Rouge

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La Morte Rouge
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La Morte Rouge movie poster
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La Morte Rouge

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La Morte Rouge
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The Challenges movie poster
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The Challenges

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The Challenges
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Gallery

Víctor Erice portrait
Víctor Erice portrait
Víctor Erice portrait
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