- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- June 30, 1940
- Place of Birth
- Carranza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, España
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 …
Filmography
movieClose Your Eyes
2023 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Screenstory
Piedra y cielo
moviePiedra y cielo
2019 · Director
movieWiara
2018 · Self
Plegaria
moviePlegaria
2018 · Director
movieHistoric Centre
2012 · Director, Screenplay
movieBroken Windows
2012 · Producer, Director, Screenplay
movieDon't Expect Too Much
2011 · Himself
movieAna, Three Minutes
2011 · Director
movie3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011 · Director
tvSodankylä Forever
2010 · Self
Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours
movieVíctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours
2010
movieSea-Mail
2007 · Director
movieVíctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007 · himself, Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
movieNuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
2007
movieLa Morte Rouge
2006 · Self - Narrator, Writer, Director
movieArroyo de la luz
2005 · Director
Versión Española: Victor Erice
movieVersión Española: Victor Erice
2003 · Interviewee
movieSketches (1990-2003)
2003 · Director, Writer
movieTen Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Writer, Director
movieLifeline
2002 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieVictor Erice in Madrid
2000 · Interviewee
movieThe Footprints of a Spirit
1998 · Self - Filmmaker
Preguntas En El Atardecer
moviePreguntas En El Atardecer
1996 · Director
movieCelebrate Cinema 101
1996 · Director
movieDream of Light
1992 · Director, Writer
movieEl Sur
1983 · Director, Screenplay
movieThe Spirit of the Beehive
1973 · Director, Writer
movieThe Challenges
1969 · Director, Writer
movieAntoñito vuelve a casa
1969
movieNext Fall
1967 · Writer, Assistant Director
movieOscuros sueños de agosto
1967 · Writer
movieLos días perdidos
1963 · Screenplay, Director
Pages From a Lost Diary
moviePages From a Lost Diary
1962 · Director
Between the Tracks
movieBetween the Tracks
1962 · Director
On the Terrace
movieOn the Terrace
1961 · Director
movieTarde de domingo
1960 · Production Manager
Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel
movieMemoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel
— · Director
Memoria y sueño: El desprecio
movieMemoria y sueño: El desprecio
— · Director