Victor Erice Filmography

Born:: June 30, 1940 in Carranza, Spain
Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Victor Erice Aras
Biography:: Spanish director Victor Erice made two of his country's most important and critically lauded films, El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) (1973) and Sur (The South) (1983). Erice had studied political science before entering the Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias...Read More

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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Marko Haavisto Ja Poutahaukat, Ana Sofia Liano, Pelayo Suarez

Synopsis: Seven internationally respected filmmakers offer different perspectives on time and fate -- some witty, some somber -- in this omnibus film, with the stories linked by performances from jazz great Hugh Masekela. Dogs Have No Hell by Aki Kaurismaki follows one man's unusual journey as he celebrates Read More

2002
El Sol del membrillo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A film about the artistic process in every sense of the phrase, Spanish director Victor Erice's El Sol del Mebrillo (The Quince Tree Sun) loosely documents the efforts of artist Antonio Lopez to paint the titular foliage in his backyard. Lopez agonizes over just how to capture the light falling on Read More

1992
Sur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Sonsoles Aranguren, Icíar Bollaín, Lola Cardona, Rafaela Aparicio

Synopsis: El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella (Iciar Bollain), a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti). The girl's Read More

1983
Fragments from Willoughby's Video... Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Video art by Willoughby Sharp. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Spirit of the Beehive

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria

Synopsis: Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and uneventful -- an allegory of Spanish life after General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. While their father (Fernando Fernán Gómez) Read More

1973
Los Desafios

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Dean Selmier, Asuncion Balaguer, Teresa Rabal, Alfredo Mayo

Synopsis: Dean Selmier plays an expatriate American in each story of this trilogy. Francisco Rabal and his family star in the first feature filmed at the Rabal family home in Madrid. An over aggressive American soldier tries to put the moves on his wife and daughter before he is clubbed and thrown into the Read More

1970
Oscuros Suenos de Agosto

Crew: Screenwriter

1967