Cinema, poesia e história: uma leitura do filme El espíritu de la colmena de Victor Erice

Abstract

Victor Erice's El espíritu de la colmena (1973) is considered one of the most beautiful Spanish films from the 1970s. The film, in addition to internally articulating the complex network of meanings that the Civil War and Francoism played in Spanish history and culture, shows other subtleties and strategies used by the director to construct his narrative. One of them is poetry itself. And since many of the images in the film tell us about some of Antonio Machado's poems read from Miguel de Unamuno's perspective, I propose for this review the exercise of seeing how Victor Erice intertwined images and poetry to speak of one of the most tragic periods in Spanish history.