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Filippo Pompa Marcelli

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THE APE WOMAN is the highest-praised film by Marco Ferreri, the over-the-top iconoclastic director known for 'La Grande Bouffe'. His signature edgy exploration of the grotesque was revered by the Cannes Festival who awarded many of his works.

The film is inspired by a true story of the nihilistically cruel exploitation of a young carnival performer, Julia Pastrana, whose body was completely covered in hair.

She is brought to life here by an extraordinary Annie Girardot -France's highest-paid actress of the time - in a natural measured and elegant performance from which emanates the ambiguous emotion of being alluring yet devastatingly poignant as 'the ape woman'.

An unscrupulous hustler (a magnificent Ugo Tognazzi), discovers the young woman in a convent and marries her in order to get her on the freak-show circuit and cash in on the distinctive appearance of her body and face covered in hair.
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Filippo Pompa Marcelli is known for L'arma l'ora il movente (1972), The Ape Woman (1964) and Creeping Death (1972).
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    L'arma l'ora il movente (1972)
    L'arma l'ora il movente
    6.1
    • Actor(as Filippo Marcelli)
    • 1972
    The Ape Woman (1964)
    The Ape Woman
    7.3
    • Bruno
    • 1964
    Creeping Death (1972)
    Creeping Death
    5.2
    • Actor(as Filippo Marcelli)
    • 1972

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    • L'arma l'ora il movente (1972)
      L'arma l'ora il movente
      6.1
      • (as Filippo Marcelli)
      • 1972
    • Creeping Death (1972)
      Creeping Death
      5.2
      • (as Filippo Marcelli)
      • 1972
    • The Ape Woman (1964)
      The Ape Woman
      7.3
      • Bruno
      • 1964

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