The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Original title: El espíritu de la colmena
The Spirit of the Beehive is a 1973 Spanish-language drama movie directed by Víctor Erice, with a running time of 1h 38m. It stars Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez and Teresa Gimpera.
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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