El hombre elefante
¡Yo no soy un monstruo! ¡No soy un animal! ¡Soy un ser humano! ¡Soy... un hombre!
1980 • 124 min • Drama · History
Our family guide
Best from age 13- 100 Reviewers · 2 · 51%
- 80 Audience · 3994 · 49%
Un cirujano bondadoso rescata a un hombre gravemente desfigurado de un espectáculo de fenómenos en el Londres victoriano. Descubre a una persona sensible e inteligente debajo de su apariencia exterior, desafiando el prejuicio social y ofreciéndole dignidad. Basada en una historia real, la película explora la compasión en medio de la crueldad.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 2/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Representa a un personaje con una desfiguración severa
- Temas de explotación y crueldad
- Algunas escenas muestran al personaje siendo maltratado
What it models well
- Compasión y empatía
- Dignidad y respeto para todos
- Superar los prejuicios
- Belleza interior e inteligencia
Talk about it after
- Juzgar a los demás por su apariencia
- El trato histórico a las personas con discapacidades
- La importancia de la amabilidad
- Responsabilidad social y derechos humanos
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Top billed cast
Director: David Lynch • Crew: David Lynch, Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren
Trailers & clips
David Lynch on Mel Brooks & THE ELEPHANT MAN | Special Feature (Excerpt)
David Lynch: Mel Brooks Is the Guy Who Put Me on the Map
Emotional scene from THE ELEPHANT MAN
Clip
Reveal
First 10 Minutes [4K Remastered]
Official 40th Anniversary Restoration Trailer
Interview with John Hurt
Reviewer notes
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersSaw this, recently up-converted to 4K at the London Film Festival and, apart from the clear improvements to the quality and detail of the image, I was reminded of just how good it is. Anthony Hopkins and Anne Bancroft play their roles with engaging sincerity - very ably supported by Sir John Gielgud and Dame Wendy Hiller.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers_**The ultimate outcast**_ In 1884 London, a doctor (Anthony Hopkins) meets Joseph Merrick, aka The Elephant Man (wrongly called John Merrick in the film) who was being exploited as a freak show attraction. Treves (Hopkins) tries to help Merrick (John Hurt) for the last six years of the latter’s life wherein he becomes cultured, but he inevitably remains an object of curiosity, to high society as well as low society.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 8.0/10 (3,994)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Box office
- $26,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0080678
