1975 film by Francisco Regueiro

新西班牙电影早期经典，奥斯卡最佳外语片提名，阿尔莫多瓦的西班牙电影十佳之一。
A 43-year-old woman discovers she is actually a man...A woman living in a small town discovers after fifty years that she is actually a man. Will she change her sex and suffer the reaction of a narrow-minded society?

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.

安东尼奥（何塞·瓦奎斯饰演）掌管着一个家族企业，一场车祸之后不幸地身体瘫痪，并失掉了大部分记忆。安东尼奥的家人通过各种方式，试图帮助他恢复对于保险箱密码、公司管理、家人以及自己的记忆和认知。安东尼奥在碎片般的童年记忆中再次修复了对于自己过往生活的经验，但他已然无力面对追名逐利的亲人和令人窒息的现实生活。

本片是导演早期的剧情长片之一，以讽刺地展现生活的怪异、死亡和阴暗面而出名。在这部黑色喜剧中，一位与卑劣且冷漠的家人同住的老人喜爱跟一个坐在特制轮椅上的残疾人交往。当老人发现大多数的残疾人都拥有这样的“交通工具”后，突发奇想要为自己设计一辆特殊的单车。但当他向家人分享这个愿望时，遭受的却是冷眼与不无好意的响应……