Víctor Erice

Víctor Erice was born in 1940 in Karrantza, in Biscay, grew up in San Sebastián and at seventeen moved to Madrid, where he studied law and political science before obtaining the director's diploma of the official film school. A critic for the review Nuestro Cine, he made his debut in 1969 with one of the three episodes of a collective film. He has made only four feature films in half a century, one of them left unfinished, his producer having halted the shoot, and a documentary on the painter Antonio López, which won the jury prize at Cannes in 1992.

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• CinemaThe Spirit of the BeehiveEl espíritu de la colmenaVíctor Erice · 1973Cinema