Black Butterflies

IMDb link: 0906778
IMDb rating: 6.2 (2,419 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography
Director: Paula van der Oest
Cast: Rutger Hauer, Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Graham Clarke and others

Release date: 31 Mar 2011
Release year: 2011
Runtime: 100 minutes
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Keywords: sex on a bed, sex on a table, title directed by female, ocean rescue, argument, baby girl, playwright, black maid, puritanical father, racist father

Plot:

She searched for a home, she searched for love. Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship. With men like Jack Cope (Liam Cunningham) and Andre Brink, she found much love, but no home. In his first speech to the South African Parliament, Nelson Mandela read her poem "The Dead Child of Nyanga" and addresses her as one of the finest poets of South Africa.

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