Víctor Erice

Víctor Erice

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.

  • Title: Víctor Erice
  • Popularity: 3.777
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1940-06-30
  • Place of Birth: Carranza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, España
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  • Also Known As: 빅토르 에리세, 빅토르 에리스, Виктор Эрисе
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Víctor Erice Movies

  • 2011
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    Don't Expect Too Much

    Don't Expect Too Much

    6.2 2011 HD

    Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a University professor

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  • 1969
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    Antoñito vuelve a casa

    Antoñito vuelve a casa

    1 1969 HD

    In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he...

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  • 2006
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    La Morte Rouge

    La Morte Rouge

    6.7 2006 HD

    Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil...

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  • 2007
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    Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

    Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

    5.6 2007 HD

    Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station,...

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  • 1998
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    The Footprints of a Spirit

    The Footprints of a Spirit

    6 1998 HD

    The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.

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  • 2000
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    Victor Erice in Madrid

    Victor Erice in Madrid

    1 2000 HD

    An interview with Spanish film director Victor Erice, conducted by Hideyuki Miyaoka

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  • 2003
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    Versión Española: Victor Erice

    Versión Española: Victor Erice

    1 2003 HD

    A documentary made for Spanish television with an interview of film director Victor Erice concerning his 1983 film "El Sur."

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  • 2010
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    Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours

    Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours

    1 2010 HD

    Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving...

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  • 2018
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    Wiara

    Wiara

    1 2018 HD

    Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.

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  • 2007
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    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    6 2007 HD

    Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    1 2010 HD

    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

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  • 1973
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    The Spirit of the Beehive

    The Spirit of the Beehive

    7.6 1973 HD

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  • 2002
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    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    6.6 2002 HD

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  • 2002
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    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

    6.6 2002 HD

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  • 1963
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    Los días perdidos

    Los días perdidos

    5.7 1963 HD

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  • 1983
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    El Sur

    El Sur

    7.7 1983 HD

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  • 1992
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    Dream of Light

    Dream of Light

    7 1992 HD

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  • 2012
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    Historic Centre

    Historic Centre

    6.2 2012 HD

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  • 2006
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    La Morte Rouge

    La Morte Rouge

    6.7 2006 HD

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  • 2006
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    La Morte Rouge

    La Morte Rouge

    6.7 2006 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Challenges

    The Challenges

    5.2 1969 HD

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  • 2023
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    Close Your Eyes

    Close Your Eyes

    6.9 2023 HD

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  • 2012
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    Broken Windows

    Broken Windows

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Broken Windows

    Broken Windows

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2012
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    Broken Windows

    Broken Windows

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1961
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    On the Terrace

    On the Terrace

    1 1961 HD

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  • 2011
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    Ana, Three Minutes

    Ana, Three Minutes

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2018
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    Plegaria

    Plegaria

    1 2018 HD

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  • 1996
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    Celebrate Cinema 101

    Celebrate Cinema 101

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1967
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    Oscuros sueños de agosto

    Oscuros sueños de agosto

    4.9 1967 HD

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  • 2011
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    3.11 A Sense of Home

    3.11 A Sense of Home

    6.5 2011 HD

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  • 2007
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    Sea-Mail

    Sea-Mail

    5.2 2007 HD

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  • 2003
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    Sketches (1990-2003)

    Sketches (1990-2003)

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1983
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    El Sur

    El Sur

    7.7 1983 HD

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  • 1960
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    Tarde de domingo

    Tarde de domingo

    5 1960 HD

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  • 2012
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    Historic Centre

    Historic Centre

    6.2 2012 HD

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  • 2003
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    Sketches (1990-2003)

    Sketches (1990-2003)

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2023
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    Close Your Eyes

    Close Your Eyes

    6.9 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    Close Your Eyes

    Close Your Eyes

    6.9 2023 HD

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  • 2023
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    Close Your Eyes

    Close Your Eyes

    6.9 2023 HD

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  • 1963
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    Los días perdidos

    Los días perdidos

    5.7 1963 HD

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  • 1970
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    Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel

    Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1962
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    Pages From a Lost Diary

    Pages From a Lost Diary

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1970
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    Memoria y sueño: El desprecio

    Memoria y sueño: El desprecio

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2007
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    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    6 2007 HD

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  • 1992
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    Dream of Light

    Dream of Light

    7 1992 HD

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  • 2005
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    Arroyo de la luz

    Arroyo de la luz

    5.3 2005 HD

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  • 2007
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    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    6 2007 HD

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  • 2007
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    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    6 2007 HD

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  • 1962
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    Between the Tracks

    Between the Tracks

    1 1962 HD

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  • 2007
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    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

    6 2007 HD

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  • 1969
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    The Challenges

    The Challenges

    5.2 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Next Fall

    Next Fall

    5 1967 HD

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  • 2019
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    Piedra y cielo

    Piedra y cielo

    1 2019 HD

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  • 1967
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    Next Fall

    Next Fall

    5 1967 HD

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