The Spirit of the Beehive ( El Espíritu de la colmena )

The Spirit of the Beehive (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El Espíritu de la colmena
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain
San Sebastian International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
97 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Víctor Erice

Written By:
Víctor Erice
Ángel Fernández Santos

Actors:
Fernando Fernan Gomez ..... Fernando
Teresa Gimpera ..... Teresa
Ana Torrent ..... Ana
Isabel Tellería ..... Isabel
Ketty de la Cámara ..... Milagros, la criada
Estanis González ..... Guardia civil
José Villasante ..... The Frankenstein Monster
Juan Francisco Margallo ..... The Fugitive
Laly Soldevila ..... Doña Lucía, the teacher
Miguel Picazo ..... The Doctor

Synopsis:

'The Spirit of the Beehive,' directed by Víctor Erice, takes place in a small, isolated Spanish town in 1940, shortly after the end of the civil war that inaugurated the long reign of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The film was made in 1973, near the end of Franco's dictatorship, at a time when Spanish cinema was just starting to reawaken, and to probe, carefully and hesitantly, the buried traumas of the recent past. Perhaps fittingly, one of Mr. Erice's themes is repression - not so much the stifling of thought by political authority as the willed avoidance of painful experience. The story that emerges from Mr. Erice's lovely, lovingly considered images is at once lucid and enigmatic, poised between adult longing and childlike eagerness, sorrowful knowledge and startled innocence.

In Castile c.1940, a travelling movie theatre brings James Whale's b/w film classic 'Frankenstein' (1931) to a village. (Admission 1 peseta for adults, 2 reales for children.) Two young girls, Isabel and Ana, determine to find the Monster.

A sensitive seven-year-old girl living in 1940 in a small Spanish village is traumatized after viewing the movie "Frankenstein" and drifts into her own fantasy world.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 October, 2006.

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