The Spirit of the Beehive
Dir: Víctor EriceCast: Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera
98mins 1973 Spain Certificate: PG Spanish
Subtitled The Spirit of the Beehive
Presented by Cinelogue
In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.
Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end and widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made.
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