poster

Monkeys Like Becky

Documentary

6.5

Release Date

January 1, 1999

Duration

97 min

Status

Released

Language

es

Overview

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.

Casts

Valentí Agustí

Himself

Valentí Agustí

Francisco Franco

Himself (archive footage)

Francisco Franco

Joaquim Jordà i Català

Himself

Joaquim Jordà i Català

João Maria Pinto

João Maria Pinto

Carmen Polo

Herself (archive footage)

Carmen Polo

Marian Varela

Marian Varela

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