High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Víctor Erice Aras (born 30 June 1940 in Karrantza in Biscay Spain) is a Spanish film director.He studied law, political science, and economics at the University of Madrid also attended the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografia in 1963 to study film direction. He wrote film criticism and reviews for the Spanish film journal Nuestro Cine, and made a series of short films before making his first feature film, The Spirit of the Beehive (1973), a critical portrait of the rural Spain of the 40s.