Film
Monkeys Like Becky
1999Directed by Joaquín Jordá, Núria Villazán
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
About Monkeys Like Becky
- Documentary
Synopsis
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.
- Directors
- Joaquín Jordá
- Núria Villazán
- Writers
- Joaquín Jordá
- Núria Villazán
- Original title
- Mones com la Becky
