DVD
The spirit of the beehive = El espíritu de la colmena
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special ed.
Languages
In Spanish, with optional English subtitles.
Performers
Ana Torrent, Isabel Tellería, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Teresa Gimpera.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2013]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of the country's devastating civil war, six-year-old Ana attends a traveling movie show of Frankenstein and becomes possessed by the memory of it.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features: "The footprints of a spirit," a documentary featuring director Victor Erice, producer Elías Querejeta, coscreenwriter Ángel Fernández Santos, and actor Ana Torrent ; interviews with scholar Linda C. Ehrlich and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez ; "Victor Erice in Madrid," an interview by filmmaker Hideyuki Miyaoka.