The Spirit of the Beehive
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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Fantasy
7.6
390 reviewsRuntime: 98 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1973-10-08
Director(s): Víctor Erice
Production: Elías Querejeta PC, Jacel Desposito
Languages: Spanish
IMDB: tt0070040
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Andres Gomez★ 8/1010/11/2014
Good movie about children's world and believes with magnificent Fernando Fernán Gómez and really good performance from Ana Torrent. The script is *really* good and depicts pretty well a stage in Spanish countryside life after the civil war. A must to be seen.