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The Dream of Butterfly
1939, Jan 10
1h 40m
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.
Directed by
Carmine Gallone
Achille Majeroni
Paolo Stoppa
Paul Kemp
Richard Hell
Saro Urzì
Fosco Giachetti
Harry Peters
Guglielmo Barnabò
Carlo Lombardi
Giuseppe Pierozzi
Angelo Ferrari
Lucie Englisch
Anna Ranieri
Luigi Almirante
Riccardo Belli
Germana Paolieri
Mary Peterson
Gino Viotti
Renato Cialente
Rio Nobile
Maria Cebotari
Rosi Belloni
Miranda Bonansea
Elena Ambrosetti
Carlo Bonansea
Liana Del Balzo
Gabriella Duda
Mary Dumont
Guido Notari
Giovanni Stupin
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