在这部蜂巢剧情/喜剧片中,正如卡米洛·何塞·塞拉在同名小说中所写，本片是部描写西班牙内战刚结束后的1942年马德里众生相的伤感作品。
本片的主题是在于佛朗哥政权的苦难下幸存下来的诗人与战争的赢家、通过非法渠道牟取暴利的新兴阶级之间形成对比。
As in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.
