

The Spirit of the Beehive
In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn.
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419 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
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- Box office
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- Language
- Spanish
- monster
- beehive
- baby-snatching
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
- spirit
- haunted
- frankenstein
- 1940
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Behind the camera
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical8 Oct 1973
BrazilBR
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival22 Oct 2014
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival 20 Apr 2024
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)For non-commercial screenings only12 Mar 1996
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival20 Nov 2004
- Theatrical (limited) re-release29 Jul 2010
JapanJP
- TheatricalG2 Feb 1985
MexicoMX
- PremiereUNAM International Film Festival18 Jun 2024
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical5 Oct 1978
PolandPL
- Theatrical1619 May 1975
RomaniaRO
- Theatrical (limited)158 Oct 1973
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1229 Jan 2025
SpainES
- PremiereSan Sebastián International Film Festival18 Sept 1973
- Theatrical18Madrid8 Oct 1973
- TheatricalBarcelona5 Nov 1973
- TheatricalRe-release23 Jan 2004
- Theatrical (limited)Re-release1 Sept 2023
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The Spirit of the Beehive was released on 8 October 1973.
Audience reviews
2- A8/10
Andres Gomez
10/11/2014
Good movie about children's world and believes with magnificent Fernando Fernán Gómez and really good performance from Ana Torrent. The script is *really* good and depicts pretty well a stage in Spanish countryside life after the civil war. A must to be seen.
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Salim Martínez
5/27/2026
Me enamoré de esta película. Tan profunda, tan tierna y vivaz. Quizá porque apela a esa ingenua imaginación que todos tuvimos alguna vez. Esa imaginación que nos permitía ir más allá, ser realmente libres y escapar de la colmena en la que vivíamos. ¿Dónde quedaron aquellos dulces momentos? Probablemente no volverán, pero conviene recordar que un espíritu no puede morir. Que TU espíritu no puede morir. _Si eres su ami…
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