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 critic...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Close Your Eyes
2023
Director, Producer, Screenplay
Years after his mysterious disappearance, Julio Arenas, a famous Spanish actor, is back in the news thanks to a television program.
Piedra y cielo
2019
Director
Situated in front of the video camera, observed by it day and night, the stele-sculpture and chapel of the Memorial have been subjected to a cinematis...

Wiara
2018
as Himself
Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead.
Plegaria
2018
Director
Short film by Victor Erice, based on the photographs that he has taken over time in the same place

Historic Centre
2012
Director, Screenplay
Four voices and their visions of Guimarães, cradle city of the Portuguese nation and European Capital of Culture in 2012.

Broken Windows
2012
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Life through a glass, life through a lens, life through a camera. Fade to black. General view of the access to a factory with a big wheel.

Don't Expect Too Much
2011
as Himself
Documentary about director/artist Nicholas Ray and his time as a University professor

Ana, Three Minutes
2011
Director
Part of the collective feature film 3.11 Sense of Home

3.11 A Sense of Home Films
2011
Director
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day.

Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by ...
Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours
2010
Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving p...

Sea-Mail
2007
Director
Shortlength that recreates the letters exchanged between Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami.

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007
as himself
Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences
2007
Director, Editor, Writer
Relationships and multiple influences between two great directors of modern cinema.

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine
2007
Greek Theo Angelopoulos traveling from Athens to Ostia, the Roman beach where Pasolini was killed. Far from there, in a Spanish train station, Víctor ...

La Morte Rouge
2006
as Self - Narrator
Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil Rathbone ...

La Morte Rouge
2006
Director, Writer
Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice talks about the first movie he probably ever saw, Roy William Neill's The Scarlet Claw (1944), starring Basil Rathbone ...

Arroyo de la luz
2005
Director
In a school in Extremadura in a town called Arroyo de la Luz, the teacher shows children of about ten years the subtitled Kiarostami film "Where is my...
Versión Española: Victor Erice
2003
as Interviewee
A documentary made for Spanish television with an interview of film director Victor Erice concerning his 1983 film "El Sur."

Sketches (1990-2003)
2003
Director, Writer
Apuntes is a sort of prologue to ‘The Quince Tree Sun’. With images shot by Erice in the Summer of 1990, as he was preparing such film, observing how ...

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Writer, Director
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by ...

Lifeline
2002
Director, Writer, Producer
1940. In a rural home in northern Spain life goes on, slowly. But a blood stain on a newborn might have some deep meanings.
Victor Erice in Madrid
2000
as Interviewee
An interview with Spanish film director Victor Erice, conducted by Hideyuki Miyaoka

The Footprints of a Spirit
1998
as Self - Filmmaker
The story of the creation of The Spirit of the Beehive, a film directed by Víctor Erice in 1973.
Preguntas En El Atardecer
1996
Director
Victor Erice's contribution to Celebrate CINEMA 101

Celebrate Cinema 101
1996
Director
This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.

Dream of Light
1992
Director, Writer
Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

El Sur
1983
Director, Screenplay
A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

The Spirit of the Beehive
1973
Director
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of Jam...

The Challenges
1969
Director, Writer
Los desafíos presents three separate stories that are linked by an American presence in Spain in the 1960s, with Dean Selmier playing the role of the ...

Antoñito vuelve a casa
1969
In Spain, Antoñito, a child, is punished to remain standing doing the fascist salute. As an adult, turned into a young college student, he tries to fr...

Next Fall
1967
Writer, Assistant Director
Filmed in 1963, but not released in Spain until 1967, the film depicts the failed romance between a bourgeois french tourist girl and a spanish workin...

Oscuros sueños de agosto
1967
Writer
Isabel returns to Spain, after several years of absence, to be cured of a neurosis. His daughter Ana, whom he has not seen in all this time, decides t...

Los días perdidos
1963
Screenplay, Director
A married woman living in France returns to Madrid to bury her father.
Pages From a Lost Diary
1962
Director
Between the Tracks
1962
Director
On the Terrace
1961
Director
Short film made by Víctor Erice during his time at the Official School of Cinematography

Tarde de domingo
1960
Production Manager
Memoria y sueño: El desprecio
N/A
Director
Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel
N/A
Director