Black Butterflies

5.7

100m

2011

Drama, Romance

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.

Starring

Carice van Houten, Rutger Hauer, Liam Cunningham, Nicholas Pauling, Grant Swanby, Graham Clarke, Damon Berry, Jennifer Steyn, Candice D'Arcy, Leon Clingman

Directed By

Paula van der Oest