Black Butterflies

02/06/2011

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1hr 40min

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Drama

,Romance

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

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

    Director

  • Paula van der Oest

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • CoBo Fonds
  • IDTV Film
  • Cool Beans
  • Comet Film Produktion GmbH
  • Spier Films
  • Riba Film International
  • NTR
  • Nederlands Fonds voor de Film

    Production Countries

  • Germany
  • Netherlands
  • South Africa

LANGUAGES

  • English

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