The Cry of the Butterfly
2001 · 106 min · Drama
Seventeen-year-old Paulina, who lives with her beloved grandfather and sings in a hip-hop band, is fighting leukaemia in hospital. There she meets Pablo — alcoholic mother, absent father — a boy who has just attempted suicide. Against the odds, the two fall in love. A 1999 German television film directed by Frank Strecker, starring Marie Zielcke, Marek Harloff, Hannelore Elsner and Dietmar Schönherr; Paul Vincent and Sema Mutlu’s score won the 2001 German Television Award.
- Director
- Frank Strecker
- Writer
- Sarah Brigitte Thomsen
- Released
- May 18, 2001
- Language
- German
Cast
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