Release Date

10 Jan, 1939

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.

Original Title

Il sogno di Butterfly

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Actors

Maria Cebotari

Fosco Giachetti

Lucie Englisch

Paul Kemp

Germana Paolieri

Luigi Almirante

Renato Cialente

Guglielmo Barnabò

Carlo Lombardi

Miranda Bonansea

Giuseppe Pierozzi

Paolo Stoppa

Rio Nobile

Gino Viotti

Elena Ambrosetti

Carlo Bonansea

Liana Del Balzo

Gabriella Duda

Mary Dumont

Angelo Ferrari

Achille Majeroni

Crew

Carmine Gallone

Oswald Hafenrichter

Ilse Naumann

Guido Fiorini

Fritz Curioni

Alberto Fusi

Anchise Brizzi

Ivo Battelli

Luigi Ricci