Camilo José Cela
How Don Quixote de la Mancha, the immortal character created by Miguel de Cervantes in 1605, has been depicted in cinema, television, cartoons, theater, opera, ballet and other artistic disciplines. An adventure that began more than four hundred years ago in the pages of a book and is far from coming to an end…
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.
Adapted from a famous novel by Camilo J. Cela. Pascual Duarte, a farmer from Extremadura, killed the dog that accompanied him to hunt a day of tremendous heat. Some time later, he killed the mule kicked his wife to death. Later killed his mother. Finally, he killed the owner of the land where he had grown up. Pascual Duarte was placed on the garrotte.
Divided in several episodes, this film presents different stories that share the fantasy theme.
