The Spirit of the Beehive

1973 · El espíritu de la colmena

Directed by

Víctor Erice

Starring

Ana Torrent, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera

Runtime

1h 38m

Country

USA

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.