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Black Butterflies

5.5 average rating
5.5
English / 100 MIN. / 2011

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Carice van HoutenRutger HauerLiam CunninghamNicholas PaulingGrant SwanbyGraham ClarkeDamon BerryJennifer SteynCandice D'ArcyLeon ClingmanWaldemar SchultzTarryn PageSabrina OschmannFlorence MasebeCeridwen MorrisThamsanqua MbongoLouis PretoriusMarthinus Van den Berg

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