Drury's HEC Film Series: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

This series is courtesy of Drury University's Humanities & Ethics Center (HEC). There will be a post discussion screening with Dr. Tim Robbins, a professor of Spanish literature. This series is free for Students, Faculty & Staff with a Drury University ID.

In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’s devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end and widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, The Spirit of the Beehive is a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life and one of the most visually arresting movies ever made. [Janus]

Starring: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent
Director: Victor Erice
Language(s): English, Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy