The 5th Monkey
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The 5th Monkey | |
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Directed by | Éric Rochat |
Written by | Éric Rochat Jacques Zibi (novel) |
Produced by | Menahem Golan |
Starring | Ben Kingsley Silvia De Carvalho Mika Lins Vera Fischer |
Cinematography | Gideon Porath |
Edited by | Alain Jakubowicz Fabien D. Tordjmann |
Music by | Robert O. Ragland |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 93 minutes |
Countries | United States Brazil |
Language | English |
The 5th Monkeyis a Brazilian-American 1990drama filmdirected and written byÉric Rochatand starringBen Kingsley.The film was based on the novelLe Cinquieme Singeby Jacques Zibi.The Cannon GroupfounderMenahem Golanproduced via his21st Century Film Corporation,following the demise of Cannon.
The original music score was composed byRobert O. Ragland.
Plot
[edit]Cunda (Kingsley) lives deep in the Brazilianrainforestand is intent on making enough money so he can marry a widow in his village. However, his trade - capturing snakes for scientists - pays very little money, and he is in direct competition with other suitors.
One day, Cunda is bitten by asnake,and he crawls to the river to recover. While going through the agonizing recovery, he has an hallucination of four chimpanzees sitting in the river. Recovered, he returns home and finds the four chimpanzees waiting for him, and his efforts to shoo them away fail. Knowing that chimpanzees are not native toBrazil,he decides that they are a kind of supernatural gift for him. Believing this, he decides to take them to "the city" to sell them.
The journey isn't easy from the start; he discovers that he can't tie them on a rope and drag them, and the only way is to coax them. They stumble into a gold-panning camp, where Cunda is forced to work in order to pay off an old debt. When one of the monkeys is taken as payment, Cunda must figure how to retrieve the monkey and escape. Later, he, the monkeys and the adults of a village arekidnappedby mercenaries. Cunda and the monkeys escape, along with a village woman who refuses to leave his side. Arriving at a small town, a confusing sequence results in one of the monkeys disappearing, and Cunda becoming the servant of the local rich woman who has taken it upon herself to take care of the monkeys. Cunda now has to solve these two problems, and deal with the fact of thevillagewoman's attraction to him plus his growing fondness of the monkeys.
Cast
[edit]- Ben Kingsleyas Cunda
- Silvia De Carvalho as Maria
- Mika Lins as Octavia
- Vera Fischeras Mrs. Watts
External links
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- 1990 films
- English-language Brazilian films
- 1990 romantic drama films
- American romantic drama films
- Brazilian romantic drama films
- Films about animal rights
- Films about apes
- Films about poverty
- Films based on French novels
- Films based on romance novels
- Films about hunters
- Films scored by Robert O. Ragland
- Films set in Brazil
- Films set in forests
- Columbia Pictures films
- Films produced by Menahem Golan
- 1990s English-language films
- 1990s American films
- 1990s Brazilian films
- 1990s Brazilian film stubs
- 1990s romantic drama film stubs
- 1990s American film stubs