--- title: 'A Monkey''s Tale (1999)' type: 'film' director: 'Jean-François Laguionie' released: '1999-06-02' runtime_minutes: 80 certification: 'G' genres: - 'Fantasy' countries: - 'France' - 'Hungary' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-monkeys-tale-1999' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188506/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # A Monkey's Tale (1999) 1999 · G · 80 min · Fantasy · France, Hungary Original title: Le Château des singes ## Synopsis A Monkey's Tale is a feature-length animated film directed by Jean-François Laguionie. It was released in 1999, and won the Award for Best Animated Feature Film at the fifth Kecskemét Animation Film Festival. It was released theatrically in the UK by Miracle Communications in its original English-language version in 2000, featuring the voices of Rik Mayall, John Hurt, Michael York, Sally Anne Marsh, and Michael Gambon. It was initially going to be released straight-to-video in the US by Universal Pictures, but for unknown reasons, it never materialized. Instead in 2000, The Harvey Entertainment Company acquired funding rights to the film, with television distribution rights going to Pearson Television International. A sequel titled The Prince's Voyage was produced in 2019. ## Credits - **Director:** [Jean-François Laguionie](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-francois-laguionie) - **Screenplay:** [Jean-François Laguionie](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-francois-laguionie) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alexandre Desplat](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexandre-desplat) ## Cast - [Lionel Melet](https://cinepixo.com/people/lionel-melet) - [Jean Piat](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-piat) - [Ivana Coppola](https://cinepixo.com/people/ivana-coppola) - [Bruno Choël](https://cinepixo.com/people/bruno-choel) - [Janine Souchon](https://cinepixo.com/people/janine-souchon) - [Pierre Arditi](https://cinepixo.com/people/pierre-arditi) - [Yves Barsacq](https://cinepixo.com/people/yves-barsacq) - [Tara Römer](https://cinepixo.com/people/tara-romer) - [Michael Lonsdale](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-lonsdale) - [Paul Barge](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-barge-2) - [Patrick Préjean](https://cinepixo.com/people/patrick-prejean) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/a-monkeys-tale-1999 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1149528); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.