The Ape Woman
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| Directed by | Marco Ferreri |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
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Rafael Azcona Marco Ferreri |
| Starring | Ugo Tognazzi |
| Music by | Teo Usuelli |
| Cinematography | Aldo Tonti |
| Edited by | Mario Serandrei |
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100 minutes |
| Country | Italy France |
| Language | Italian French |
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.
In 2008 the film was selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved.
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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