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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
Ferreri took the real story of a woman that look like an Ape (monkey) and her marriage to an opportunist who was 'using' her in entertainment...
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- Ugo Tognazzi
- Marco Ferreri
- 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
Emma Fogarty ️☭🏳️🌈. Marco Ferreri directs a 94 minute dramedy starring Ugo Tognazzi and Annie Girardot, the plot focuses on a man who takes on a woman with a rare genetic condition and persuades her into doing shows for him.
Oct 10, 2021 · This 4K restoration of Marco Ferreri’s controversial film, The Ape Woman, is a tragically nightmarish tale of manipulation, that not only watches like a bizarre melodrama, but infuriates at how the nature of this story still can be implemented on different minorities within our modern day society.
