The Spirit of the Beehive / El espíritu de la colmena
Director: Víctor Erice
Writer: Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos
Production: Spain, 1973
Duration: 97 minutes
Genre:
Drama
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles
Cast:
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo, Queti de la Camara, Estanis González, José Villasante, Juan Margallo
Awards:
7 wins: the CEC Award for Best Actor (Fernando Fernán Gómez), Best Director (Víctor Erice), and the Best Film in the 1974 Cinema Writers Circle Awards (Spain). It won the Best Spanish Movie Performer (Ana Torrent ) at the 1974 Fotogramas de Plata. Also, the film won the 1977 Premio ACE for Cinema - Best Actress (Ana Torrent) and Cinema - Best Director (Víctor Erice). It also won the Golden Seashell for Víctor Erice in the 1973 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Synopsis:
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The youngster is profoundly disturbed by the scenes in which the monster murders the little girl and is later killed himself by the villagers. She questions her sister about the profundities of life and death and believes her older sibling when she tells her that the monster is not dead, but exists as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own.
Writer: Víctor Erice, Ángel Fernández Santos
Production: Spain, 1973
Duration: 97 minutes
Genre:
Drama
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles
Cast:
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria, Laly Soldevila, Miguel Picazo, Queti de la Camara, Estanis González, José Villasante, Juan Margallo
Awards:
7 wins: the CEC Award for Best Actor (Fernando Fernán Gómez), Best Director (Víctor Erice), and the Best Film in the 1974 Cinema Writers Circle Awards (Spain). It won the Best Spanish Movie Performer (Ana Torrent ) at the 1974 Fotogramas de Plata. Also, the film won the 1977 Premio ACE for Cinema - Best Actress (Ana Torrent) and Cinema - Best Director (Víctor Erice). It also won the Golden Seashell for Víctor Erice in the 1973 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Synopsis:
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The youngster is profoundly disturbed by the scenes in which the monster murders the little girl and is later killed himself by the villagers. She questions her sister about the profundities of life and death and believes her older sibling when she tells her that the monster is not dead, but exists as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own.
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