The Last Butterfly

The Last Butterfly
The Last Butterfly
Directed by	Karel Kachyňa
Written by	Ota Hofman; Karel Kachyňa
Based on	The Last Butterfly; by Michael Jacot
Produced by	Caroline Schweich; Boudjemaa Dahmane; Jacques Méthé
Starring	Tom Courtenay; Brigitte Fossey; Ingrid Held
Cinematography	Jiří Krejčík jr.
Edited by	Jiří Brožek; Suzanne Lang-Willar
Music by	Milan Svoboda; Alex North
Production; companies	Barrandov Studios; Cinema et Communication; Filmexport Praha; HTV International Ltd.
Distributed by	Lucernafilm
Release date	January 1, 1991;
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	Czechoslovakia; France
Languages	Czech; English

The Last Butterfly (Czech: Poslední motýl; French: La dernier papillon) is a 1990 Czech–French holocaust drama film directed by Karel Kachyňa based on the book The Last Butterfly by Canadian author Michael Jacot.[1]

Cast

Tom Courtenay as Antoine Moreau
Brigitte Fossey as Věra
Ingrid Held as Michèle
Freddie Jones as Conductor Karl Rheinberg
Milan Kňažko as Commandant Gruber
Josef Kemr as Leo Stadler
Drahomíra Fialková as Leo Stadler's wife
Pavel Bobek as Silberstein
Josef Laufer as Petersen
Hana Hegerová as Singer
Linda Jablonská as Stella

Release

The movie had a premiere in Czechoslovakia in 1991. The film received generally positive reviews. Stephen Holden wrote in New York Times: "The mood of calm despair that hangs over the film lends it a disquietingly surreal aura. But it also plays into the story, which describes an attempt to deliver a horrifying message without stating it in words."[2] David Mills wrote in The Washington Post: "The Last Butterfly demonstrates the precious power of art to transmit emotional truths about history, if not the factual completeness of history."[3]

Bibliography

Brownstein, Rich (2021). Holocaust Cinema Complete: A History and Analysis of 400 Films, with a Teaching Guide. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 9781476641928. OCLC 1269508907.

References

"Prolific Canadian writer, filmmaker Michael Jacot dies Social Sharing". CBC.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 October 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
Holden, Stephen (20 August 1993). "Review/Film; A Holocaust Witness, Eloquent in His Silence". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2021.
Mills, David (21 January 1994). "'The Last Butterfly' (NR)". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

External links

The Last Butterfly at IMDb

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[1] "Prolific Canadian writer, filmmaker Michael Jacot dies Social Sharing". CBC.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. 11 October 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

[2] Holden, Stephen (20 August 1993). "Review/Film; A Holocaust Witness, Eloquent in His Silence". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 October 2021.

[3] Mills, David (21 January 1994). "'The Last Butterfly' (NR)". Washington Post. Retrieved 17 October 2021.