The Spirit of the Beehive
El espíritu de la colmena (original)
Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country'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, 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.
Starring Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo, José Villasante, Juan Margallo
Watch "The Spirit of the Beehive" on Criterion Channel released in 1973. It's a drama and fantasy movie, and has a rating of 7.8 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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