MOVIE · 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive
DramaFantasy98 min
In 1940, just after the Spanish Civil War, six-year-old Ana becomes fixated on Frankenstein after a traveling screening reaches her small Castilian village. Ana Torrent is Ana, who starts to believe the monster survives as a spirit in a nearby barn after her sister tells her it is not dead. As she wanders through the family home, the schoolroom, and the wide Castilian plain, the ordinary world takes on the shape of a child’s private fears and fascinations, with the unsettled lives of the adults around her never fully explained.
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