Black Butterflies(Movie, 2011)

Name: Black Butterflies
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2011
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 3.1

1h 40min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Black Butterflies is an English-language Dutch drama film about the life of South-African Afrikaans poet and anti-apartheid political dissident Ingrid Jonker. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and premiered in the Netherlands on February 6 before being released on 31 March 2011. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Black Butterflies

Golden Calf for Best Feature Film

About Black Butterflies

Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African Parliament Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addressed her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

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Trailer for Black Butterflies + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer(Trailer, 2:28)

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.blackbutterflies.nl

Production countries: Germany, Netherlands, South Africa

Plays in: South Africa

Made by: NTR, Comet Film Produktion GmbH, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, Cool Beans, Spier Films, CoBo Fonds, IDTV Film, Riba Film International

Original language: Dutch (NL)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 13 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date DE: 02/06/2011

Cast: Carice van Houten, Rutger Hauer, Liam Cunningham, Albert Maritz

Director: Paula van der Oest

Screenwriter: Greg Latter

Film Editor: Sander Vos

Composer: Philip Miller

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Svarta Fjärilar"

Keywords: apartheid, woman director

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