The Spirit of the Beehive [El espiritu de la colmena]

Victor Erice (director)
Angel Fernandez Santos (screenwriter)
Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent (starring)

N.p. Kino International, 1973. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1973 Spanish film.

In a small Castilian village in 1940, a young girl experiences an existential crisis after watching a traveling screening of James Whale's 1931 film "Frankenstein," and decides to seek out the monster, whom she believes lives in a nearby abandoned barn.

Shot on location in Castilla y Leon and Madrid, Spain.

10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus overall, several with cropping annotations on the recto.

Criterion Collection 351. Ebert IV.


[Book #151661]