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The Spirit of the Beehive

After a traveling projectionist screens a picture of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the town in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a remote Spanish hamlet, is traumatized. The moments in which the monster murders the small girl before being killed by the townspeople distress the child greatly. She interrogates her older sister about the meaning of life and death, and she believes her older sibling when she claims that the monster is alive and well in a neighboring barn. When a refugee from Franco's triumphant army hides out in the barn, Ana enters her own dream world.

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