Bye Bye Monkey

Bye Bye Monkey Italian Ciao maschio , French Rve de singe is a 1978 ItalianFrench film, directed by Marco Ferreri and starring Grard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco and Geraldine Fitzgerald. It is about a man who finds a baby chimpanzee in a giant King Kong prop and decides to raise it like a son. It was filmed in English and shot in Long Island, New York. As this was a FrenchItalian coproduction, French and Italian dubbed versions were made for their respective countries theatrical releases.

The film was presented at the official competition of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival and received the Grand Prize of the Jury, in tie with Jerzy Skolimowskis The Shout.

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