Víctor Erice

Víctor Erice

1940-06-30 Carranza, Vizcaya, País Vasco, España 40 Credits

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...

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Close Your Eyes

Close Your Eyes

2023

Director, Producer, Screenplay

7.1
Directing Producing Writing

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

Directing

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

Wiara

2018

as Himself

Acting

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

Plegaria

2018

Director

Directing

Short film by Victor Erice, based on the photographs that he has taken over time in the same place

Historic Centre

Historic Centre

2012

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

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

Broken Windows

Broken Windows

2012

Director, Screenplay, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

Don't Expect Too Much

2011

as Himself

6.0
Acting

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

Ana, Three Minutes

Ana, Three Minutes

2011

Director

6.0
Directing

Part of the collective feature film 3.11 Sense of Home

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

3.11 A Sense of Home Films

2011

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

Acting

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

Acting

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

Sea-Mail

2007

Director

5.2
Directing

Shortlength that recreates the letters exchanged between Victor Erice and Abbas Kiarostami.

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

2007

as himself

7.0
Acting

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

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

Víctor Erice – Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences

2007

Director, Editor, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

Nuevo / Otro Cine Español - Un Lugar En El Cine

2007

5.6
Acting

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

La Morte Rouge

2006

as Self - Narrator

6.6
Acting

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

La Morte Rouge

2006

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

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

Arroyo de la luz

2005

Director

5.3
Directing

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

Acting

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

Sketches (1990-2003)

Sketches (1990-2003)

2003

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002

Writer, Director

6.7
Writing Directing

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

Lifeline

2002

Director, Writer, Producer

Directing Writing Producing

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

Acting

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

The Footprints of a Spirit

The Footprints of a Spirit

1998

as Self - Filmmaker

6.0
Acting

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

Directing

Victor Erice's contribution to Celebrate CINEMA 101

Celebrate Cinema 101

Celebrate Cinema 101

1996

Director

Directing

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

Dream of Light

Dream of Light

1992

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

Filmmaker Victor Erice follows Spanish artist Antonio Lopez in his painstaking attempt to paint the image of a tree.

El Sur

El Sur

1983

Director, Screenplay

7.7
Directing Writing

A woman recalls her childhood growing up in the North of Spain, focusing on her relationship with her father.

The Spirit of the Beehive

The Spirit of the Beehive

1973

Director

7.6
Directing

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

The Challenges

1969

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

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

Antoñito vuelve a casa

1969

1.0
Acting

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

Next Fall

1967

Writer, Assistant Director

5.0
Writing Directing

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

Oscuros sueños de agosto

1967

Writer

4.9
Writing

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

Los días perdidos

1963

Screenplay, Director

5.7
Writing Directing

A married woman living in France returns to Madrid to bury her father.

Pages From a Lost Diary

1962

Director

Directing

Between the Tracks

1962

Director

Directing

On the Terrace

1961

Director

Directing

Short film made by Víctor Erice during his time at the Official School of Cinematography

Tarde de domingo

Tarde de domingo

1960

Production Manager

5.0

Memoria y sueño: El desprecio

N/A

Director

Directing

Memoria y sueño: Sierra de Teruel

N/A

Director

Directing