El espíritu de la colmena
Víctor Erice
El espíritu de la colmena The Spirit of the Beehive [videorecording]= The Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice - Spain Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L. Jacel Desposito 1973 - 2 videodiscs (ca. 99 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 351 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 351. .
Special features include:
- The Footprints of a Spirit, a documentary featuring director Víctor Erice, producer Elías Querejeta, coscreenwriter Ángel Fernández-Santos, and actor Ana Torrent
- Víctor Erice in Madrid, an interview by filmmaker Hideyuki Miyaoka
- Interview with film scholar Linda Ehrlich and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez
- PLUS: a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith
From case cover:
Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. 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. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end, 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.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .E875 1973
El espíritu de la colmena The Spirit of the Beehive [videorecording]= The Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice - Spain Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L. Jacel Desposito 1973 - 2 videodiscs (ca. 99 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 in. - The Criterion Collection Vol. 351 . - Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 351. .
Special features include:
- The Footprints of a Spirit, a documentary featuring director Víctor Erice, producer Elías Querejeta, coscreenwriter Ángel Fernández-Santos, and actor Ana Torrent
- Víctor Erice in Madrid, an interview by filmmaker Hideyuki Miyaoka
- Interview with film scholar Linda Ehrlich and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez
- PLUS: a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith
From case cover:
Criterion is proud to present Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s. 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. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end, 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.
DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; NTSC; Regions 1; 1.66:1 as 16:9 widescreen.
Spanish audio. Optional English subtitles.
PN1997 / .E875 1973