Butterfly [DVD] [1999]
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Description
Veteran director Jose Luis Cuerda delivered this sensitive portrait of a child coming of age during a tense political situation just before the Spanish Civil War. On his first day of school, frail eight-year-old Moncho (Manuel Lozano) is so terrified by the imposing figure of his teacher Don Gregorio (Fernando Fernan Gomez) that he flees into the nearby woods. In spite of his authoritarian appearance, the schoolmaster proves to be a kind, free-thinking Republican who teaches Moncho the virtues of being good. The boy is soon spending much of his time with the elderly Gregorio in the Galician countryside, admiring such wonders of nature as the tongue of a butterfly. Other people in young Moncho's world include his down-to-earth mother (Uxia Blanco), his Republican father, and his older brother, who plays the saxophone with a group of local musicians. However, when the Fascists roll into town, the boy's life changes forever. La Lengua de las Mariposas was screened at the 1999 San Sebastian Film Festival.~Jonathan Crow
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- GenreDrama,Foreign Films
- SubgenreChildhood Drama,Coming-of-Age,Period Film,Political Drama
- TitleButterfly
- Countries ProducedSpain
- Duration95 minutes
- Year of Release1999
- Product TagsDVD
- FormatDVD
- Program TypeMovie
- Sound FeaturesDolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
- Screen FormatEnhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
- LanguageFrench, Spanish
- SubtitlesEnglish
- Region Code1
- StudioFox Home Ent. (lgf)
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- Product NameButterfly [DVD] [1999]
- UPC031398138396
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