SPAIN · 1973
The Spirit of the Beehive
childhood innocence
post civil war spain
cinema and imagination
trauma and haunting
reality versus fantasy
Synopsis
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.
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