The Butterfly's Dream

1994 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

Drama

Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Bibi Andersson · Giusi Frallonardo · Ketty Fusco · Sergio Graziani · Roberto Herlitzka · Anita Laurenzi · Viviana Natale · Aleka Paizi · Antonio Pennarella · Patrizia Punzo · Michael Seyfried · Henry Arnold · Thierry Blanc · Nathalie Boutefeu · Carla Cassola · Simona Cavallari · Consuelo Ciatti