The Last Butterfly

The Last Butterfly is a 1990 Czech–French holocaust drama film directed by Karel Kachyňa based on the book The Last Butterfly by Canadian author Michael Jacot.

Cast

Tom Courtenay as Antoine Moreau
Brigitte Fossey as Věra
Ingrid Held as Michèle
Freddie Jones as Conductor Karl Rheinberg
Milan Kňažko as Commandant Gruber
Josef Kemr as Leo Stadler
Drahomíra Fialková as Leo Stadler's wife
Pavel Bobek as Silberstein
Josef Laufer as Petersen
Hana Hegerová as Singer
Linda Jablonská as Stella
Release

The movie had a premiere in Czechoslovakia in 1991. The film received generally positive reviews. Stephen Holden wrote in New York Times: "The mood of calm despair that hangs over the film lends it a disquietingly surreal aura. But it also plays into the story, which describes an attempt to deliver a horrifying message without stating it in words." David Mills wrote in The Washington Post: "The Last Butterfly demonstrates the precious power of art to transmit emotional truths about history, if not the factual completeness of history."