Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Black butterflies [videorecording] / Tribeca Film in partnership with American Express ; presents a Bavaria Film International ; with IDTV Film and Cool Beans presentation ; produced by Frans Van Gestel, Richard Claus, Michael Auret, Arry Voorsmit ; written by Greg Latter ; directed by Paula van der Oest.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : New Video Group, 2012.

Description:

1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Poetry, politics, madness, and desire collide in the true story of the woman hailed as South Africa's finest poet. In 1960s Cape Town, as Apartheid steals the expressive rights of blacks and whites alike, young Ingrid Jonker finds her freedom scrawling verse while frittering through a series of stormy affairs. Amid escalating quarrels with her lovers and her rigid father, a parliament censorship minister, the poet witnesses an unconscionable event that will alter the course of both her artistic and personal lives.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Women -- Drama.

Apartheid -- South Africa -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Hauer, Rutger, 1944-2019.

Houten, Carice van, 1976-

Cunningham, Liam.