Set in rural Spain just after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War Victor Erice's debut film The Spirit Of The Beehive is a remarkable story of a child's innocence amid post-war traumas. Ana Torrent gives a stunning performance as a young girl adjusting to the new Fascist rule. When a travelling cinema comes to town and shows the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein Ana starts to worry about the fate of the Monster. Goaded on by her sister who tells her the Monster lives on the
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