The Beehive
La colmena
Release: 1982-10-11
·Runtime: 112m
·★ 6.4
Comedy
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Spain
Production Companies
Ágata Films
TVE
Cast
Fiorella Faltoyano
as Filo
José Sacristán
as Martín Marco López
Luis Escobar
as Don Ibrahim
Emilio Fornet
as Fotógrafo
José «Saza» Sazatornil
as Tesifonte Ovejero
Camilo José Cela
as Matías Martí
Rosana Caskan
as La Uruguaya
Rafael Hernández
as Padilla
Beatriz Elorrieta
as Prostituta
Victoria Abril
as Julita
Rafael Alonso
as Julián Suárez 'La fotógrafa'
Antonio Mingote
as Señor de luto
Miguel Rellán
as Cliente del prostíbulo
Marta Fernández Muro
as Amparito
Imanol Arias
as Novio de Victorita
Concha Velasco
as Purita
Luis Ciges
as Don Casimiro
José Ramón Pardo
as Policía
Francisco Rabal
as Ricardo Sorbedo
Antonio Resines
as Pepe 'El Astilla'
Alfonso Godá
as Juez
Rafael Navarro
as Jefe del edificio
Mary Carrillo
as Doña Asunción
Queta Claver
as Doña Matilde
José Vivó
as Prestamista
Luis Barbero
as Pepe
Encarna Paso
as Madre de Victorita
Manuel Zarzo
as Consorcio López
Alberto Fernández
as Cosme
José Luis López Vázquez
as Leonardo Meléndez
Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
as Ventura Aguado
Agustín González
as Mario de la Vega
Elena María Tejeiro
as Señorita Elvira
Ricardo Tundidor
as Roberto González
Ana Belén
as Victorita
Mario Pardo
as Rubio Antofagasta
Charo López
as Nati Robles
Francisco Algora
as Ramón Maello
José Bódalo
as Don Roque
Elvira Quintillá
as Doña Visitación
María Luisa Ponte
as Doña Rosa