The Spirit of the Beehive 1973

7.6 / 10   330 vote(s)
Drama Fantasy

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.

Release Date 1973-10-08
Runtime 1h 39m
Directors Luis Cuadrado, Víctor Erice
Producer Elías Querejeta
Writers Francisco J. Querejeta, Ángel Fernández Santos

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.

Andres Gomez