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    Black Butterflies

    Black Butterflies

    2011

    1:40:01

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    5.7/10 (35)

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    Black Butterflies

    Genre

    Drama
    Romance

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Paula van der Oest

    Writers

    Greg Latter,

    Stars

    Carice van Houten, Rutger Hauer, Liam Cunningham, Nicholas Pauling, Grant Swanby,