Monkeys Like Becky - Production & Contact Info

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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6 cast members

Name	Known for
Valentí Agustí Self Self See fewer	Versión española (1998)
Francisco Franco Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Raza (1942)
Joaquim Jordà Self Self See fewer	A Body in the Woods (1996)
João Maria Pinto Actor Actor See fewer	Maré Alta (2004)
Carmen Polo Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Defenders of the Faith (1938)
Marian Varela Actress Actress See fewer	Cell 211 (2009)