Spirit of the Beehive

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1973

Running Time:

1:35

Genre:

Drama

Director:

Víctor Erice

Cast:

Fernando Fernán Gómez	Fernando
Teresa Gimpera	Teresa
Ana Torrente	Ana

Producers:

Elías Querejeta

Writers:

Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos, Francisco J. Querejeta

Language:

English

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Set in a remote village in the 1940s. Life is calm and uneventful -- an allegory of Spanish life after General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. Two young girls see a Frankenstein movie and one of the girls starts wandering the countryside in search of this kind creature.

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