In the Time of the Butterflies
In the Time of the Butterflies is a 2001 feature film, produced for the Showtime television network, directed by Mariano Barroso and based on Julia Álvarez's book of the same name. The story is a fictionalized account of the lives of the Mirabal sisters, Dominican revolutionary activists, who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo and were assassinated on November 25, 1960.
Plot
The film begins with pictures and video of the actual victims of Trujillo. During the montage, a title card appears that says:
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author | Julia Alvarez |
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director | Mariano Barroso |
editor | Pablo Blanco |
genre | drama |
keywords | arrest boarding school chief of police church dice dice roll dominican republic end force hatred held captive kill later latin america latin american law school law student lawyer married on the road only way pilar padilla police captain police chief prison cell school play slap spanish spanish language the international torture wait |
musicBy | Van Dyke Parks |
producer | Ellen Gordon Helen Barlett Helen Buck Bartlett Salma Hayek Tony Bill |
productionCompany | Showtime Networks Ventanarosa |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |