Koko: A Talking Gorilla
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100% Rotten Tomatoes Cinematography Nestor Almendros Duration Language EnglishFrench | 7.5/10 IMDb 7.1/10 Genre Documentary Country France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Penny Patterson (Herself), (Le Gorille), Saul Kitchener (Directeur du Zoo de San Francisco), Carl Pribram (Le professeur de Neuroscience)Release date October 1978 Similar movies King of Kong Island , The Savage Girl , Nabonga , Tarzan , Planet of the Apes , Planet of the Apes |
Koko: A Talking Gorilla (French: Koko, le gorille qui parle) is a 1978 documentary directed by Barbet Schroeder that focuses on Dr. Francine 'Penny' Patterson and her work with Koko, the gorilla Patterson claims to have taught to communicate with humans using symbols taken from American Sign Language. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival.

Synopsis

The film introduces us to Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment—she would be taught the basics of human communication through American Sign Language.


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