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Monkeys Like Becky

6.5 97 mins Documentary   1999
Els Quatre Gats Audiovisuals S.L.  
Director(s): Joaquín Jordá Núria Villazán

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 of Monkeys Like Becky

Valentí Agustí

as Himself

Francisco Franco

as Himself (archive footage)

Joaquín Jordá

as Himself

Carmen Polo

as Herself (archive footage)

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