Not RatedThe Spirit of the Beehive

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IMDB (21,150 votes)

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500M
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Play Time: 97 mins
Drama, Fantasy
The Spirit of the Beehive

Overview:
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.

Original Title:El espíritu de la colmena
Status: Released (1973-10-08)
Awards:7 wins & 1 nomination
Screen:Ángel Fernández Santos, Víctor Erice
Productions: Elías Querejeta PC, Jacel Desposito
Production Countries: Spain
Spoken Languages: Español
The Spirit of the Beehive
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Andres Gomez

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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.

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