BLACK BUTTERFLIES

By Paula VAN DER OEST

TOPKAPI FILMS - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2010

She was welcome everywhere, but never really at home.

    • Year of production
    • 2010
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • DUTCH
    • Budget
    • 5 - 10 M$
    • Director(s)
    • Paula VAN DER OEST
    • Writer(s)
    • Greg LATTER
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/4DD1-7356-BE25-1628-62EB-0
    • Producer(s)
    • Frans VAN GESTEL (Topkapi Films), Arnold HESLENFELD (Topkapi Films), Richard CLAUS (Comet film), Arry VOORSMIT (Riba Film)
    • Synopsis
    • Ingrid Jonker finds from an early age her freedom and solace in writing, whenever and wherever she can.
      She is like a whirlwind. You have to love her, bringing excitement and drama with her. Jack Cope and Andre Brink love her at the
      same time - but neither can give Ingrid what she seeks.
      Rejected by her father, who worked as minister of censorship in the Apartheid regime of 1960s South Africa, she struggles to find
      a home and a love.
      It is not until Nelson Mandela read her poem “The child that died at Nyanga” in his first speech to the South African Parliament
      that she “lived again”.
    • Beginning of shooting
    • Mar 01, 2010