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The Singing Ape, Gibbon (2017)
Directed by Choi Pyeong Soon
“If you see a forest and you don’t hear any gibbon, this is a dead forest.”
Documentary · 1h 37m
Humans belong to a group called anthropoids. Gibbons have the most human-like traits among the anthropoids. Gibbons are the only apes capable to sing like humans and communicate through their songs. This film documents an unprecedented attempt to investigate the musicality of multiple species of wild gibbons - siamang, the white-handed gibbon and the javan gibbon - surviving in the South-East Asians habitats. The story of endangered Asian Ape unfolds in this documentary with their songs in various situations.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Choi Pyeong Soon
- Writer
- Kim Mi Soo
- Producer
- Kim Dong Kwan, Choi Pyeong Soon
Details
- Original title
- 긴팔인간
- Release date
- 2017-10-25
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- KO
- Spoken languages
- English, Korean
- Countries
- South Korea
- Production
- Korea Educational Broadcasting System (EBS)
- Budget
- $200,000