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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.
Mar 31, 2011 · Black Butterflies: Directed by Paula van der Oest. With Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, Graham Clarke. In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
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- Biography, Drama
- Paula van der Oest
- 2011-03-31
Rated: 4/5 Mar 1, 2012 Full Review Leslie Stonebraker New York Press Black Butterflies is the sad human poetry of the lost souls who slip beneath the waves to echo in our collective...
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- Rutger Hauer
- Paula Van Der Oest
- Drama
Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past. Watch trailers & learn more.
In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten, Black Book, Game of Thrones) finds her freedom scrawling verse ...
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- Cineverse
Mar 2, 2012 · Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's Sylvia Plath. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs.
Black Butterflies ( Les papillons noirs) is a 2022 French miniseries . Plot. Mody, a writer lacking inspiration, agrees to write the memoirs of Albert, an old man who tells him about his youth. A war orphan, he had formed a friendship which turned into love with Solange, a “Nazi girl” whose mother was a prostitute.
