The Ape Woman

The Ape Woman Italian La donna scimmia , French Le Mari de la femme barbe is a 1964 ItalianFrench drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1964 Cannes Film Festival. The film was inspired by the reallife story of Julia Pastrana a 19thcentury woman exploited as a freak show attraction by her manager Theodore Lent.

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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