"If you see a forest and you don’t hear any gibbon, this is a dead forest."

The Singing Ape, Gibbon

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Documentary
Director:Choi Pyeong Soon

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.

Details

Original Title긴팔인간
StatusReleased
Release DateOctober 25, 2017
Release Dates
United States:
Premiere - Oct 25, 2017
Runtime1sa 37dk
Budget$200,000
00
Origin CountrySouth Korea
Original LanguageKorean
Spoken LanguagesEnglish, 한국어/조선말

Production Companies

Korea Educational Broadcasting System (EBS)