Essential Cinema

Spirit of the Beehive (El Espíritu de la Colmena)
Directed by Víctor Erice

Sunday, September 29, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS

$12 | $8 Speed members

“This is one of the most beautiful films I’ve ever seen.”—Roger Ebert

In a small Castilian village in 1940, in the wake of Spain’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 and widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, 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. 1973, Spain, 35mm, in Spanish with English subtitles, 99 minutes.