The Last Butterfly (1993)
Runtime: 110 mins.
Theatrical Release: 08/20/1993
Video Release:12/28/1994, Barandov Studios, Prague and Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia
Distributor(s): Cine Classics / Arrow Releasing / New Line Home Entertainment
Synopsis: A mime is coerced into organizing a performance in Terezin, a town that the Nazis set aside for Jews to delude the Red Cross shortly before the inhabitants were sent off to concentration camps.
Director(s): Karel Kachyna
Writer(s): Karel Kachyna, Ota Hofman
From the novel Les Enfants de Terezin by Michael Jacot
Producer(s): Steven North
Executive Producer(s): Patrick Dromgoole, Boudjemaa Dahmane, Jacques Methe
Cinematography: Jiri Krejcik
Music Composer: Alex North
Production Design: Zbynek Hloch
Set Direction: Jaromir Vaverka, Jaroslav Fiala
Costume Design: Ester Krumbachova
Choreography: Radomil Cech
Makeup: Vlasta Malerova, Edith Remy		 Tom Courtenay - Antoine Moreau
Brigitte Fossey - Vera
Ingrid Held - Michele
Freddie Jones - Rheinberg
Milan Knazko - Gruber
Josef Kemr - Stadler
Ludek Kopriva - Laub
Pavel Bobek - Silberstein
Josef Laufer - Petersen
Drahomira Fialkova - Stadlerova
Rudolf Pellar - Leroux
Jiri Lir - Steiner
Hana Hegerova - Singer In The Ghetto Cafe
Jitka Molavcova - Gruber's Secretary
Linda Jablonska - Stella
Daniel Margolius - Samuel
Kamila Hodouskova - Heda
Halberstatova - Ester
Marketa Slavikova - Liana
Jiri Malek - Otto
Petr Lowy - Ikarus

  • 1. Play Program [:10]

  • 2. Europe's Greatest Mime [:00]

  • 3. Gestapo Interrogation [9:49]

  • 4. Welcome to Terezin [8:57]

  • 5. Auditions [6:07]

  • 6. Rehearsal [14:23]

  • 7. Whitewash for the Red Cross [9:47]

  • 8. German Collaborator [4:42]

  • 9. On the Next Transport [13:17]

  • 10. Hansel and Gretal and Dreams [5:23]

  • 11. Why Aren't the Children Playing? [12:22]

  • 12. The Grand Performance [5:05]