LA DONNA SCIMMIA
(“The Monkey Woman”)
Production: Italy, 1963
Director: Marco Ferreri
Category: Freaks
Based on the real-life story of “Gorilla Woman” Julia Pastrana (born Mexico 1832), a hypertrichosis (excessive body hair) sufferer whose corpse was mummified by husband/promotor Theodore Lent and toured around Europe in a glass coffin.
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