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Project Nim (2011)
Directed by James Marsh
“The world will be a different place once you've seen it through his eyes.”
Documentary · 1h 33m
From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Cast
Bob Angelini
Lab Tech
Bern Cohen
Dr. William Lemmon
Reagan Leonard
Stephanie LaFarge
N
Nim Chimpsky
Self (archive footage)
S
Stephanie LaFarge
Self
H
Herbert Terrace
Self
W
Wer LaFarge
Self (archive footage)
J
Jenny Lee
Self
L
Laura-Ann Petitto
Self
B
Bill Tynan
Self
J
Joyce Butler
Self
R
Renne Falitz
Self
Crew
- Director
- James Marsh
- Novel
- Elizabeth Hess
- Director of Photography
- Michael Simmonds
- Original Music Composer
- Dickon Hinchliffe
- Editor
- Jinx Godfrey
- Producer
- Simon Chinn, Prudence Arndt, Nancy Abraham
Details
- Release date
- 2011-07-08
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC Film, Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Icon Productions, UK Film Council