Monkeys Like Becky
1999•1h 37m•6.6•Released
Documentary
The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals with the everyday life of people with schizophrenia today: behavior and relationships, and treatment for the disease.
Director
Núria Villazán
Writer
Joaquín Jordá, Núria Villazán
Languages
English, Portuguese, Spanish
Studio
Els Quatre Gats Audiovisuals S.L.
Cast
Valentí Agustí
Himself
Francisco Franco
Himself (archive footage)
Joaquín Jordá
Himself
João Maria Pinto
Carmen Polo
Herself (archive footage)
Marian Varela
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