The Spirit of the Beehive
El espíritu de la colmena, feature film, Spain, 1973
DIRECTED BY: Víctor Erice
CAST:
Fernando Fernán-Gómez (Fernando),
Teresa Gimpera (Teresa),
Ana Torrent (Ana),
Isabel Telleria (Isabel),
Juan Francisco Margallo,
Ketty de la Cámara (Milagros)
SCRIPT:
Víctor Erice,
Ángel Fernández Santos
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Luis Cuadrado
MUSIC:
Luis de Pablo
EDITING:
Pablo G. del Amo
Synopsis:
In a small Spanish town in 1940, two sisters watch James Whale’s film Frankenstein from 1931. Isabel explains to her younger sister Ana that Frankenstein is actually a ghost who cannot die and afterwards takes her to an abandoned stable claiming that the ghost is in the well. While their father spends time researching bees and their mother writes long letters, naďve Ana decides to find the ghost.
color, 98'