Overview
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
Director and cast
- Mario Camus Director
- Ana Belén as Victorita
- Concha Velasco as Purita
- Victoria Abril as Julita
- Francisco Rabal as Ricardo Sorbedo
- Mario Pardo as Rubio Antofagasta
- Fiorella Faltoyano as Filo
- José «Saza» Sazatornil as Tesifonte Ovejero
- José Luis López Vázquez as Leonardo Meléndez
- Mary Carrillo as Doña Asunción
- Charo López as Nati Robles
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