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The Year of the Monkey

Ülo PIKKOV

Estonia2003 11min Beta Color Asian Premiere

Synopsis

A day before Christmas, while wondering around a zoo drunk, Santa Claus gets locked up inside a monkey cage. Convinced that the monkey is Santa Claus, people start to lock the monkey up for the purpose of rehabilitation. For those who have seen Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, the scene is not an unfamiliar one. Will the monkey adapt to human society? Will it be able to live more humane than us humans? (JI Se-yeon)

Diretor

Ülo PIKKOV