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The Spirit of the Beehive
El espíritu de la colmena
Víctor Erice’s remarkable feature debut, a brilliantly perceptive portrait of family life in rural Spain shortly after Franco’s victory in the Civil War.
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Director
Víctor Erice
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With
Fernando Fernán Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería
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Spain 1973. 98min
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Digital
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Certificate
PG
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English subtitles
Erice’s remarkable first feature concerns a family living in a remote Castilian village shortly after the end of the Civil War, and centres on eight-year-old Ana, confused about the relationship of life and death after a screening of Frankenstein. A piercingly perceptive portrait of lonely lives haunted by grief, the film boasts images of both wondrously direct simplicity and enormous eloquence.
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