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The Ape Woman (Italian: La donna scimmia, French: Le Mari de la femme à barbe) is a 1964 Italian-French satirical drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. The film was inspired by the real-life story of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century woman who was exploited as a freak show attraction.
The Ape Woman: Directed by Marco Ferreri. With Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot, Achille Majeroni, Elvira Paolini. A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Marco Ferreri
- 1964-01-31
Comedy, Drama. The Ape Woman trailer. THE APE WOMAN is the highest-praised film by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for 'La Grande Bouffe'. His signature edgy exploration of the grotesque was revered by the Cannes Festival who awarded many of his works.
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Antonio, a 40-year-old Neapolitan small-time operator out for the "fast buck," discovers his golden opportunity while showing "cultural" slides of bare-breasted Africans to residents of a home for the poor run by Catholic nuns.
- Marco Ferreri, Giancarlo Santi
- Ugo Tognazzi
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- Marco Ferreri
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A competition entry in Cannes from Italy in 1964, this Marco Ferreri Black-and-White satire cashes in on the real-life story of Julia Pastrana (1834-1860), an indigenous woman from Mexico, whose face and body w...
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The Ape Woman is based on the real-life exploitation of a deformed human being. Ugo Tognazzi stars as a charming ne’er-do-well who happens upon young Annie Girardot, who outside of the fact that she is covered with hair from head to foot is a normal woman with normal desires and dreams.
