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Black Butterflies

Black Butterflies

2011, Movie, 1h 40min

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.

Country: Netherlands,Germany,South Africa

Director:

Paula van der Oest

Cast:

Liam Cunningham,

Carice van Houten,

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6.5

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Critic Sam Adams

rated

5

Black Butterflies succeeds [...] in dramatizing the horrors of apartheid...

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Critic Lotta Zachrisson

rated

8

Starkt om apartheid-poets liv.

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Black Butterflies was released in theaters on March 1, 2011.