El espíritu de la colmena The Spirit of the Beehive Victor Erice [videorecording]=

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmLanguage: Spanish Summary language: English Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Series: The Criterion Collection ; Vol. 351Publication details: Spain Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L. Jacel Desposito 1973Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 99 min.) sound, color; 4 3/4 inOther title:
  • The Spirit of the Beehive [Parallel title]
Uniform titles:
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
LOC classification:
  • PN1997 .E875 1973
Summary: 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.
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Books Books SILC Learning Support Services DH132AA - Receiption/Circulation PN1997 .E875 1973 Available 002358
DVD - Video DVD - Video SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-B: DVD Cabinet B PN1997 .E875 1973 d.1 Available Feature Film 000712
DVD - Video DVD - Video SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-B: DVD Cabinet B PN1997 .E875 1973 d.2 Available The Supplements 000713

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.

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