El espíritu de la colmena [videorecording] = The spirit of the beehive / una producción Elías Querejeta … [et al.] director, Victor Erice.

[Irvington, N.Y]. : Criterion Collection c2006.
Added to CLICnet on 11/23/2014

DVD Region 1 Dual layer Dolby digital Widescreen.
In Spanish with optional English subtitles.
Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería.
Editor, Pablo G. del Amo music, Luís de Pablo cinematographer, Luís Cuadrado.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features (disc 2) : The footprints of a spirit documentary featuring interviews of Erice, Querejeta, Fernández-Santos, and Torrent (49 min.) Victor Erice in Madrid interview of Erice by Hideyuki Miyaoka (49 min.) interview with film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich (17 min.) interview with Fernán Gómez (12 min.).
Container insert includes a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith, Spanish Lessons .
New, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Not rated.
After the Civil War, a Spanish family lives in retreat in the countryside. While their father studies bees in his beehive and their mother writes letters to a non-existent correspondent, two young girls, Ana and Isabel, go to see James Whale’s Frankenstein at a traveling movie show. Though they can hardly understand the concept, both girls are deeply impressed with the moment when a little girl gives a flower to the monster. Isabel, the older sister, tells Ana that the monster actually exists as a spirit that you can’t see unless you know how to approach him. Ana starts wandering around the countryside in search of the kind creature.

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Requested by Ceplecha, M.

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