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The Monkey Folk

7.819891h 25mMovieDocumentary

This comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred different simians species. Footage from such diverse places as Ethiopia, Japan, Sri Lanka and Brazil brings macaques, baboons, monkeys, orangutans…

DirectorGérard Vienne
WritersJacques Lanzmann·antoine halff

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Cast · Directed by Gérard Vienne

MPMichel Piccoli
Michel Piccoli

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