
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.

as Victorita

as Purita

as Julita

as Ricardo Sorbedo

as Rubio Antofagasta

as Filo

as Tesifonte Ovejero

as Leonardo Meléndez

as Doña Asunción

as Nati Robles

as Amparito

as Ventura Aguado

as Doña Visitación

as Don Casimiro

as Martín Marco López

as Ramón Maello

as Novio de Victorita

as Mario de la Vega

as Julián Suárez 'La fotógrafa'

as Pepe 'El Astilla'

as Doña Matilde

as Doña Rosa

as Consorcio López

as Pepe

as Matías Martí

as Madre de Victorita

as Don Roque

as Prestamista

as Prostituta

as Señorita Elvira

as Prostituta

as Don Ibrahim

as Padilla

as Señor de luto

as Roberto González

as Prostituta

as La Uruguaya

as Cliente del prostíbulo

as Prostituta

as Cosme

as Fotógrafo

as Padre de Victorita

as Juez



as Policía


as Jefe del edificio

as Policía

as Patrona


as Cliente del prostíbulo





as Policía



as Narrador final (uncredited)