The Ape Woman
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Country ItalyFrance | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Comedy, Drama Duration Language ItalianFrench | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1964 (1964) Screenplay Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona Cast (Antonio Focaccia), (Maria), (Majoroni), Filippo Pompa Marcelli (Bruno), Ermelinda De Felice , Elvira Paolini Similar movies Bill Hicks: Bill Loses it in Chicago , Bill Hicks Live: Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-up Comedian , Bill Hicks: Igby's, LA , George Carlin: Back in Town , Bill Hicks: Relentless , Dave Chappelle: HBO Comedy Half-Hour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ape Woman (Italian: La donna scimmia, French: Le Mari de la femme à barbe) is a 1964 Italian-French drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. The film was inspired by the real-life story of Julia Pastrana a 19th-century woman exploited as a freak show attraction by her manager Theodore Lent.
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In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.
Plot
Marie, the "Ape Woman" (Annie Girardot), is completely covered with hair; the entrepreneur Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi) discovers her in a convent in Naples; he marries her (a condition imposed by the nuns) and begins exhibiting her to the public. He tries to sell her to a man who insists on her virginity, but she is a little reluctant. After tasting success in Paris, she dies during childbirth. Focaccia recovers her mummy from the museum of natural history and exhibits it in Naples.
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References
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