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  • Monkeys Like Becky (1999)
  • 97 min | Documentary, Biography
Monkeys Like Becky (1999)
97 min | Documentary, Biography
While the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in ...See moreWhile the mentally-ill inmates of the Therapeupic Community of Martutene prepare a performance about the life of Portuguese psychiatrist António Egas Moniz, who developed the surgical procedure known as lobotomy to treat schizophrenia in 1935, filmmakers Jordá and Villazán (who were mental patients once in their lives) reflect on modern psychiatric therapies. The title refers to the chimpanzee Becky, whose frontal lobes were removed by American physiologists John Fulton and C.F. Jacobsen, to modify her aggressive conduct in the 1930s. See less
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Producer
J.A. Pérez Giner (as José Antonio Pérez Giner)
Cinematographer
Carles Gusi
Editor
Sergi Díez
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Updated Oct 31, 1999
Release date
Oct 1999 (Spain)
Awards
4 wins

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